Energy

Sustainable, equitable energy production and access including decentralized renewables and efficiency

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This section highlights initiatives that explore and encourage alternatives to the current centralized, environmentally damaging and unsustainable sources of energy, such as decentralized renewable sources. It also includes attempts at ensuring equitable access to ecologically sustainable energy, optimizing production and distribution, improving efficiency, and regulating demand (e.g. for luxury consumption).

In Ahmedabad, women act to make slums climate-resilient, one house at a time

“We focus on the 4 prevalent stresses of the slums - heat stress, floods, vector-borne diseases, and water scarcity,”

Govt expands scope of PM-KUSUM for harnessing solar energy by farmers

Solar projects smaller than 500 kW may be allowed by states based on techno-commercial feasibility

Nagaland Students Setup Mini Hydropower Plant, Power Highway Street Lights

“Project Brighter Khuzama is wholly funded by like-minded locals and not by any governmental organisations."

न बिजली, न डीजल-ईंजन फिर भी ये आदिवासी किसान कर रहे हैं सिंचाई (in Hindi)

इस प्रकार, प्रकृति, वन्य जीव, और जंगल का संरक्षण करते हुए कृषि के लिए पानी की व्यवस्था की है।

Gujarat Man Helps Tribal Women Make Solar Cookers That Cost Just Rs 100!

Travelling across over 100 villages in Gujarat, the duo has trained people to make the best use of sun’s energy.

Coronavirus | Ex-panchayat chief from Tiruvallur designs low-cost method to produce disinfectant

The conventional source of electricity is replaced with a 1 kilowatt capacity solar panel - completely safe process.

Andhra Pradesh Approves DISCOM-Driven Rooftop Solar Program

DISCOM to play the role of a facilitator - the program will benefit both consumers and the DISCOM.

Chemistry Nobel Prize has a rural Odisha connection

The Maligaon Solar Micro-Grid is the first instance where a village level electricity generation unit has used Lithium Ferro-Phosphate batteries.

The story behind the Solar Village Project Solar Initiative in Tamil Nadu’s Irumbai

Depending on the traffic to the search engine, the group will install a certain number of solar panels in the village.