The LaBL 2.0 initiative expands the original mission of Lighting a Billion Lives by not only ensuring energy access but also powering livelihoods and enhancing community resilience. TERI colleagues who were part of LaBL 1.0 carry a wealth of institutional memory, ground experience, and sectoral knowledge. Their continued engagement can significantly enhance LaBL 2.0's design, delivery, and impact.

Besides, its alumni also include energy entrepreneurs, technicians and local organizations, who can play pivotal roles in further popularizing the LaBL impact and set the context and expected impact of LaBL 2.0.

1. Knowledge Carriers and Strategic Advisors

• Provide strategic inputs based on lessons learned from LaBL 1.0, such as technology adaptation, market challenges, and community dynamics.
• Guide the design of scalable delivery models, subsidy mechanisms, and monitoring frameworks.

2. Mentors to Current Teams

• Mentor young professionals and new project teams working under LaBL 2.0 on field operations, stakeholder coordination, and impact storytelling.
• Build capacities of team members across technical, social, and entrepreneurial dimensions of energy access programmes.

3. Anchors for Institutional Partnerships

• Leverage past networks with state nodal agencies, NGOs, SHGs, CSR partners, and technology providers to fast-track collaborations and pilot initiatives.
• Act as trusted points of contact for multi-stakeholder engagement and co-creation.

4. Technical and Innovation Contributors

• Support the co-design of new livelihood-linked solar solutions, like solar-powered food processing units, irrigation systems, or clean cooking innovations.
• Contribute to development of training manuals, tech standards, and O&M toolkits.

5. Community Mobilizers and Energy Champions (entrepreneurs and technicians)

• Act as local ambassadors of LaBL 2.0, spreading awareness about clean energy solutions for income generation (e.g., solar-powered looms, pumps, sewing machines).
• Lead demand generation through door-to-door outreach, village meetings, and social media.

6. Trainers and Mentors

• Conduct peer-to-peer training for new entrepreneurs and SHG members in system use, maintenance, and small business operations.
• Help develop local service capacity for solar equipment (O&M).

7. Micro-Entrepreneurs and Distributors

• Scale up clean energy-based micro-enterprises
• Act as last-mile distributors of LaBL-approved solar or clean energy products.

8. Facilitators of Carbon and Impact Data

• Support baseline and monitoring surveys, including household and livelihood energy usage.
• Serve as local data enumerators for carbon credit projects and impact assessments.

9. Partners in Technology Pilots

• Help co-create, test, and give feedback on new solar livelihood solutions.
• Provide real-world validation and facilitate user acceptance.

10. Gender and Youth Advocates

• Encourage greater women and youth participation in clean energy-based livelihoods.
• Facilitate the formation and capacity building of women-led energy enterprises.