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'''Ramesh Nibhoria''' is a [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] [[engineer]] and [[entrepreneur]], and creator of biomass pellet fueled cook stove.<br />
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==Business==<br />
After completing [[Engineering|engineering training]], Nibhoria worked in various shop floor jobs and eventually reached executive level mechanical engineering positions.<br />
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In February 1996, after 12 years in the engineering field, Nibhoria started Ess Aar Energies with the assistance of the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), an autonomous organisation under the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)]]. Located near Chandigarh, the company manufactured [[biomass briquettes]] from agricultural and forest residues. This project was India's first biomass [[pelletizing]] plant.<ref>[http://www.tifac.org.in/index.php?option=com_researchviewdetail&researchID=38&Itemid=204]</ref><br />
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In 2000 he started manufacturing Sanjha Chulha (Earth Stoves), a biomass briquette fired community kitchen stove, to negate the need for [[liquefied petroleum gas]] (LPG). [[Stove]]s were installed at [[Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya]] Schools at [[Himachal Pradesh|Himachal]], Punjab and Chandigarh. The users save 50% while replacing LPG with biomass briquette cooking. This invention won a [[Petroleum Conservation Research Association]] award. This project was supported by TePP (the Technopreneur Promotion Programme, run by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India).<ref>[http://tepp-innovators.blogspot.com/2006/10/tepp-innovator-ramesh-nibhoria.html Innovator Ramesh Nibhoria]</ref> He invented many bioenergy technologies and till August , 2018 he applied 13 patents.<br />
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He established Nishant [[Bioenergy]] Consultancy and Nishant Bioenergy (P) Limited.<ref>[http://www.nishantbioenergy.com Nishant Bioenergy]</ref> Company has proprietary technologies of pellet cook stoves, burners and biomass pellet manufacturing and establishes franchisees. Till 2018, 21 franchisees were operational. https://twitter.com/nibhoria<br />
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==Awards==<br />
His efforts won him an [[Ashden Award#Winners in 2005|Ashden Award]] in 2005, which was given by [[Charles, Prince of Wales|HRH Prince Charles]]. In 2006, the UN Human Settlement Programme, Kenya judged his project as promising practices.<ref>[http://staging.unchs.org/bestpractices/2006/mainview.asp?BPID=340 Best Practices] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070703051731/http://staging.unchs.org/bestpractices/2006/mainview.asp?BPID=340 |date=3 July 2007 }}</ref> He is a fellow of Global Social Benefiting Incubator (GSBI), 2007 (2013).<ref><https://www.millersocent.org/2018-4-9-scale-and-adaption-the-two-sides-of-replication/> [http://www.scu.edu/socialbenefit/entrepreneurship/gsbi/library.cfm?id=001A000000W0yD2]</ref> GSBI is run by the University of Santa Clara, San Jose, California. In 2006 he was invited to Skoll World Forum, Oxford. He was invited to the [[Al Gore]] lecture on climate change at Cambridge University. In the year 2016 his projects won WAF Award. He was also shortlisted as semifinalist at Global Clean Tech Innovation Programme (GCIP) in the year 2016<br />
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*{{cite news |title=Carbon-offsetting: All credit to them |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/carbonoffsetting-all-credit-to-them-430740.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220112338/http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/carbonoffsetting-all-credit-to-them-430740.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 December 2008 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=4 January 2007 |accessdate=2008-06-07 }}<br />
*{{cite journal |last=Rao |first=A. S. |title=Corporate Innovations: Lessons from India |date=10 January 2007 |ssrn=1087953 }}<br />
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