Green Energy for a Billion Poor reveals for the first time the story of Grameen Shakti, uncovering its remarkable growth, its pioneering philosophy and its unparalleled entrepreneurial approach to business. Readers will trace Shakti’s evolution in rural Bangladesh – one of the toughest business environments in the world – while learning how they can adopt [...]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend $103 million to Reliance Power Ltd. to help finance a solar plant in Rajasthan state that will power homes and businesses in India and help bring the country closer to its ambitious solar power generation goals. The plant will be one of the largest solar plants in [...]
Punam Energy Pvt Ltd (ONergy) is a renewable energy enterprise established in Kolkata (2009), led by a strong mission to provide solar energy to 1 million lives by 2016. ONergy is led by a team of young professionals and has won various awards and been recognized by institutions such as IIM, IIT, TiE and internalltionally [...]
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 [...]
In advance of the regional roll out and the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, some five modern lighting manufacturers or project developers and a same number of people from TERI were present for the WG discussion that focused on how to move forward and scale up. The manufacturers indicated that they would like to have [...]
Barefoot Power is thrilled to announce its inclusion in the 2011 Global Cleantech 100, announced at 10am this morning (Australian EDT). The Cleantech Group compiles an annual list of the most promising private cleantech companies globally, listing those it expects to make the biggest impact on clean technology in the next 5-10 years. Barefoot Power [...]
Philips is a global company and considered as the market leader in health care, energy efficient lighting solutions, new lighting applications, as well as lifestyle products. As its contribution to the environment, Philips produce green products that can reduce costs, CO2 emissions and energy consumption. Philips’ energy saving lamps offer up to 80% energy saving [...]
The Sustainable Renewable Energy Company (SREC) is an Australian specialist renewable energy project developer, focusing on commercial (30kW and above) and industrial (1MW and above) scale photovoltaic (PV) developments in Australia and South East Asia. Current activities on Energy for All: We are a solar development company with large scale projects in Australia and the [...]
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 [...]
Kamworks operates in Cambodia to target about 80% of its population who are living in the rural areas and have no access to grid electricity. The after sales service support is assured since the core products are locally assembled and micro-entrepreneurs are trained to enable them to perform simple maintenance tasks. Current activities on Energy for [...]
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