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December 26, 2013
AfDB: Solar PV for 70,000 Tanzanian households
The African Development Bank recently approved an amount of US$ 50 million for solar and geothermal investment in the country. This grant includes off-grid solar installations for up to 10 remote districts in rural Tanzania, benefiting about 70,000 rural households. Read more here.
December 26, 2013
5 market innovations revolutionizing solar usage in the developing world
Solar lantern and home systems deployment for the large portions of un-electrified low income world are established as the most sustainable way to let people at the base of the pyramid access light. This post looks at 5 of the most successful models that involve people’s faster adoption of solar […]
December 26, 2013
Cemex joins Global Alliance of Clean Cookstoves
Global buildings material company Cemex is the latest company to join the Global Alliance of Clean Cookstoves in its effort to help people in Latin America and Asia adopt clean cookstoves. It recently signed an agreement with the UN Foundation towards this end. Read more here.
December 26, 2013
Why clean cookstoves mean true economic development in Mozambique
NDZiLO is an ethanol stove company which seeks to solve the problems of women of Mozambique, who spend hours cooking on charcoal stoves which cause a number of health problems. NDZiLO stoves can make the company an economically viable value proposition for combating the use of these stoves. The sale […]
December 26, 2013
Indian scientist awarded UN prize for research on black carbon and methane effect on the environment
Indian scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan recently received the United Nations Champion of the Earth award for his research on the effect of black carbon and methane on the environment. A professor at The Energy and Resources Institute, his work helps quantify the effect of the black carbon or soot, produced in […]
December 26, 2013
Julia Roberts joins the world clean cooking taskforce
Eminent Hollywood celebrity Julia Roberts is already a global ambassador of United Nation’s Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. And now, she has been appointed a curator of Catapult, which is to be the first crowd-funding platform for bettering the lives of women and young girls around the world. She is […]
December 26, 2013
A new design for an old problem
New discoveries related to an old problem have emerged – it is said that the European Industrial Age caused the accelerated melting of Alpine glaciers. Now the same is happening with the Himalayan glaciers, the source of drinking water for millions in India. Black carbon from inefficient stoves used by […]
December 24, 2013
USAID wPOWER India Quarterly Update III
Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) was awarded the wPOWER Project by USAID/India in October 2012 and now we have completed one year of implementation of wPOWER India. This also marks a year of successfully facilitating the creation of a network of clean energy women entrepreneurs, or “Sakhis” in rural India. This […]
December 23, 2013
CEEW, India, Dec 2013: RE+, Renewables Beyond Electricity
This report by Council on Energy, Environment and Water is a collection of alternate and innovative applications of renewable energy sources, other than simply to generate electricity. These new devices are designed for uses across the societal spectrum, and highlights innovations like solar aerator, geothermal cooking system, solar space heating system, solar […]
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