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Category: Rural Electrification News
USAID, RBL Bank Partner to Expand Off-Grid, Rooftop Solar in India
The $75 million USAID loan guarantee will significantly enhance RBL's ability to extend loans to Indian SMBs installing off-grid and rooftop solar energy systems in poorly served ...
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ABB, Indian Institute of Technology Microgrid Partnership To Boost Climate-Smart Rural Electrification Drive
ABB and IIT Madras aim to develop a ¨microgrid of microgrids¨ platform that if successful should make a substantial contribution to realization of India's ambitious renewable ...
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Solar Microgrid Helps Save Lives, Brighten Prospects in Rural Myanmar
A community solar-energy storage is delivering emissions-free electricity throughout a village in Myanmar's central Dry Zone, enabling health clinic staff to store anti-venom and ...
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Twenty Megawatt Solar-Storage Microgrid Installed at the ¨Roof of the World¨
Up and running in Shuanghu on the Tibetan plateau, Sungrow's PV solar-energy storage microgrid provides affordable, reliable emissions-free electricity to more than 14,000 ...
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Haiti Microgrid Developer Wakes Up To Daunting New Role In Wake Of Hurricane Matthew
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, Sigora was on hand to support emergency relief efforts. Now the clean energy microutility is raising $96k and leveraging its ...
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Solar DC Microgrid Brings Electricity, Light to 800-Year Old Himalayan Village
Private and public organizations including Infosys have joined to support deployment of Global Himalayan Expeditions' solar-powered DC microgrids that are bringing electricity and ...
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Vulcan Impact Investing Makes its Mark with Rural Kenya Solar Mini-grids
Vulcan's impact investing team lay out the challenges they have faced, and the solutions they've come up with, in the two years it has owned and operated 10 off-grid, ...
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Off-Grid Renewable Energy Bringing Universal Electricity Access to Africa
Widely available and cheaper than ever, PV solar is spreading rapidly across sub-Saharan Africa as a first generation of local clean energy entrepreneurs taps into support from ...
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Watch This Fishing Village In Haiti Get Transformed by A Solar Microgrid
Sigora Solar recently completed a solar powered microgrid in Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti - a remote fishing village seven hours by truck from Port Au Prince. Sigora is a for-profit ...
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These Companies Can Deploy A Mobile Microgrid in Days
An underappreciated aspect of decentralized renewable energy is the speed at which an entire mobile microgrid can be deployed and communities can be transformed by clean energy. ...
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- The Water Energy Barrel SaunaThe traditional Finnish sauna is a water/energy phenomenon. By using wood (traditionally) or rocks to heat volcanic rocks, water can be splashed on the rocks to create steam. This steam is naturally circulated around the sauna, especially if you’re fortunate enough to be in a barrel sauna. The sauna is the perfect representation of heat/energy […]
- Solar Startup Harnesses the Power of the Sun and the Mighty ZambesiAfrican renewable energy startup Muhanya Solar Ltd. is building a solar-powered microgrid that will deliver affordable, reliable, emissions-free electricity to 60 families in Sinda, a village in eastern Zambia. In southern Zambia, SuperRich Energies Ltd is harnessing solar energy and the power of the mighty Zambesi River to build the first of a planned 12 […]
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