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January 7, 2013
Taiwan donates 10,000 solar lamps
The Taiwanese Government recently handed out as many as 10,000 solar lamps to the country’s 50 constituencies. This was done as a part of the national initiative called “One Student One Solar Lamp”. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Haiti: NRG Energy Inc and helps complete ‘The Sun Lights the Way: Brightening Boucan Carré’
The Energy Company NRG recently completed the last round of installation for its project “The Sun Lights the Way: Brightening Boucan Carré”. Under this, the company has installed solar electric system at 20 schools, a fish farm and more, through its US$1 million fund channelled through the Clinton Global Initiative. […]
January 7, 2013
Solar lanterns – the next big thing after mobile phones?
70 per cent of Africa, included in the 1.6 billion figure of people living in the world without electricity possibly have only one sustainable and safe way out of this crisis – solar lamps. This post argues for the case of solar lamps being the next big developmental vehicle in […]
January 7, 2013
How solar energy brings power to rural India
This post discusses the receptivity of rural households in India to the transition from kerosene to solar powered lights. As a part of the California based company SunEdison’s pilot programme named The Eradication of Darkness Plan, the company stumbled across the formula for success to have the households accept it. […]
January 7, 2013
How solar energy brings power to rural India
This post discusses the receptivity of rural households in India to the transition from kerosene to solar powered lights. As a part of the California based company SunEdison’s pilot programme named The Eradication of Darkness Plan, the company stumbled across the formula for success to have the households accept it. […]
January 7, 2013
India: Getting the off grid solar power going
Of all the developing nations present in the Doha Climate Change Conference, India was the only one with about 75 per cent of 226 million households without power. According to an IFC report, Indian households spent up to US$2.2 billion on heavily subsidized kerosene for their lighting needs. Again, India’s […]
January 7, 2013
Halton Foundation supports the Himalayan Cookstove Project
The Halton Foundation recently granted an amount of US$30,000 to the Himalayan Cookstove Project for their ongoing work of improving cooking conditions for the poor, rural residents of the trans-Himalayan region. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
‘Emerging Cooking Solutions’ appointed Climate Solver 2012 by WWF
Swedish clean-tech start-up company, ‘Emerging Cooking Solutions’ has recently received the award of Climate Solver 2012, as appointed by the WWF for an ingeniously simple cookstove model. Their business model comprises of using pelletized biomass in the place of wood and other forms of biomass in traditional stoves so as […]
January 7, 2013
Videos demonstrating clean cooking apparatus
This post has videos embedded of 2 very innovative clean burning cookstoves. One is the most efficient model of the Rocket Stove, and the other is called a ‘Kelly Kettle’, which cooks using twigs and pine cones. See the videos here.
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