Under ESCO Engagement Process, meetings were conducted with First ESCO, Greenfields and Telesolar. Details of respective clusters Chattarpur, Kesla and Vaishali were shared with them. First ESCO has visited the sites with SPEED team and RF team to Chattarpur.

Telesolar visited SPEED team in Delhi and has finalised four sites in Vaishali cluster. Pre-feasibility reports (PFRs) for these sites are under process.

A meeting was conducted on policy and regulatory component of SPEED project with Prayas at DAWHQ on 23 August 2012. The team from Prayas updated SPEED over various studies and research conducted by them in Rural Energy and Decentralised Distributed Generation field and shared their findings and recommendations.

On SPEED Capacity Building Modules, TLA and ISB have been working in coordination and have prepared the first cut database on the two major technologies, solar and biomass for Training and Capacity Building of Operators and Managers.