Avani is an NGO in the Central Himalayan Region of Uttarakhand, India. They are launching a program to provide electricity, cooking fuel, and jobs to remote mountainous villages through their pine needle gasification program. In the next five years, they will put up 20 village-level pine needle gasifier system to provide 2.4 MW of electricity, cooking fuel to 250,000 people, and 2,000 local jobs.