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Pathbreakers: Harish Hande, MD of Solar Electric Light Company (SELCO)
Unable to ignore the poorest of the poor who live in abject darkness, Harish Hande decided to put his Master's in solar power to good use. Today, the 44-year-old MD of Solar Electric Light Company or SELCO, retains the same inclusive elan while reminiscing how his company continues to light up lives at the bottom of the pyramid.
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- Energy
- Region
- South Asia
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- Base of the Pyramid, solar
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Kenya: Total’s Solar Kits Target Poor Households
Total Kenya is banking on portable solar kits for lighting and charging of mobile phones to break into the Kenyan renewable energy market.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Scaling up Environmental Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies – Framing the Discussion
Although environmental entrepreneurship continues to hold great promise for sustainable development, it also faces great challenges from an overall market perspective. To find some answers to these challenges, we interviewed a number of pioneers in environmental entrepreneurship development.
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- Energy, Environment
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E+Co Announces Plans to Scale Up Clean Energy Investments
E+Co, the non-profit leader in clean energy investing in small and medium enterprises in emerging markets, announced today that it will phase out its innovations unit to solely focus on and scale up clean energy investments in developing markets.
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- Energy
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Truly Local Power: African Wind Turbines Built From Scrap
Wind power isn’t used much in the developing world, since a turbine is much more expensive than a solar panel. But Access:energy is flipping that equation by finding ways to build the turbines in the communities where they’re needed.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Lighting Up Bihar, An Update on Husk Power
I just got back from a three day trip to Bihar, India where I was visiting Acumen Fund Global Fellow, Neha Kale, as part of my work on leadership at Acumen Fund. Neha is currently working for Husk Power System (HPS), an Acumen Fund investment that uses rice husks to electrify rural villages in India. Husk has set up 84 plants so far serving nearly 200,000 people.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy
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Weekly Roundup: 2-5-12 – Considering Pakistan, Reconsidering Incubators
This week on NextBillion our contributors tackled a new prescription for microfinance transparency, Pakistan’s potential for social enterprise, a key study in advancing impact investing, and a Q&A with Anurag Jain, who left the corporate world of Dell to launch a new incubator focused on four key sectors.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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From the Sun (Bypassing the Grid) to the BoP Consumer
Taking its name from the amount of time it takes sunlight to reach earth (yes, 8 minutes and 19 seconds), Eight19 is one of the many companies working to deliver solar energy to the 1.6 billion people of the BoP in need.
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- Energy, Technology
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- renewable energy, solar
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