Frontier Markets (FM) is a sales and service distribution company for affordable clean energy products to improve connectivity in rural India for the BOP. FM partners with local channels and trains field staff and local sales agents to educate, relate and reach households through our own wholesale and retail points providing low-income households (BOP) access [...]
Harish Hande, co-founder and Managing Director of Selco India, visited ADB yesterday to present the company and its incredible success of providing access to energy to more than 100,000 people in rural India. Harish Hande, a solar engineer educated in the US, started SELCO 1995 with an initial loan from Winrock International to pioneer [...]
Husk Power Systems, a clean electricity provider, lowers costs by using bamboo poles to hang wires overhead. Photo credit: flickr/Acumen Fund New Ventures India, part of WRI’s center for environmental entrepreneurship, and CDF-IFMR convened a workshop in Mumbai earlier this summer to address the barriers to the clean energy industry serving India’s rural poor. Representatives [...]
As a lot of you already know, my work as an Associate at the University Impact Fund (UIF) often exposes me to for-profit enterprises that are leading the way for social change in emerging markets (if not, you can read my bio here). Because social change in emerging markets focuses almost exclusively on the world’s poorest, [...]
Worldwide, the positive link between per capita energy use and human and economic development has been demonstrated. Yet in India, approximately 45 percent of rural Indian Base of the (BoP) households do not have access to modern energy services, and more than 85 percent use traditional fuel sources, such as dung cake and firewood, for cooking.[1] [...]
There are different ways to get involved with the Energy For All Partnership and get the communication going:
