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Over 1,500 Maharashtra Schools Lose Power Supply Due to Non-payment of Bills
The Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) has stopped power supply to over 1,500 schools in Maharashtra’s Raigad district over non-payment of dues, an official said on Tuesday. Power supply has been disconnected to 1,549 schools of Raigad Zilla Parishad, of which 679 have lost electricity permanently, the MSEB official said. The supply has been stopped due to non-payment of bills to the tune of Rs 49.74 lakh, he said.
Solar Village Project to install 10 solar arrays for 10 rural health centers in India
Today, Solar Village Project (SVP), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization announced today that they have raised the funding to bring life-saving, reliable solar power to medical clinics in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh, India — the country with the second highest number of COVID cases in the world.
Nuera Solar announces partnership with the Solar Village Project
Nuera Solar today announced a partnership with the Solar Village Project, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that delivers light and power to communities in Africa, India, and Polynesia. The partnership is part of the Nuera Gives Initiative, and with the partnership Nuera Solar will provide a solar power system to the Solar Village Project for each solar system that the company installs.
Solar Village Project to bring solar power to seven villages without electricity in Senegal
Solar Village Project (SVP), a local non-profit organization whose mission is to install and manage solar power projects in Senegal and India, has announced its second round of projects to be implemented in the Sahel and Littoral regions of Senegal.
Survey: 37% poor rural students not studying at all
MUMBAI: Prolonged closure of schools since the pandemic began has had “catastrophic consequences” on children’s education, according to a new survey of 1,362 schoolkids from underprivileged homes in 15 states and UTs.How to get rural Indian households to pay for electricity?
Credit where it’s due. The government deserves applause for an unprecedented electrification drive under Saubhagya; though India is still away from achieving universal electrification. Although 26 million homes were electrified since October 2017, the scheme only included “willing households”. The number of households unwilling to accept a connection under Saubhagya remains unquantified.Clean Power Isn’t Reaching Those Who Need It Most
Sometime this year a worker will plug in an historic solar panel. Whether on a small rooftop or in a sprawling desert array, that panel will put the world over the edge of the first terawatt of capacity to produce electricity from the sun.
Projects installed at the beginning of this century were measured in kilowatts. A thousand of those make a megawatt. Multiply by a thousand again and it’s a gigawatt—a scale that some of the biggest solar farms can now hit. Getting to a terawatt, made up of 1,000 gigawatts, took the world more than two decades. The next one will come in a fraction of that time.
German Wind, Solar Power Beat Coal Generation for First Time
Germany’s wind and solar farms surpassed lignite and hard coal as sources of electricity for the first time during the six months to June, a sign the market is starting to squeeze out the dirtiest fossil fuels.Investing for Climate Justice: An Intersectional Approach
Climate change and social inequality are two material and systemic risks facing the global economy and investment portfolios over the coming decades. Market-driven solutions to each issue offer tremendous opportunities for investors. But rather than viewing climate change and social inequality solutions through distinct lenses, investors should approach them via an intersectional lens. This approach involves drawing out the connections between climate change and social inequality and using them to generate actionable investment ideas through an inclusive process.Biden’s plan can foster solar opportunity locally
Over the past three years, anyone looking toward the sky in Norfolk’s Lamberts Point, Park Place, or Berkley neighborhoods may have noticed a flurry of activity happening on the rooftops of several family-owned businesses.
Atop a mattress factory, a welding company, a distillery, an industrial plastics business, and a roofing company — plus two churches, a Boys & Girls Club and a residence — work crews were busy installing more than 1,000 solar panels.
Many Indian villagers still waiting for promised electricity
CHANDOKHA SUDIYAL, India — In late April Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his government had achieved the laudable feat of getting electricity to every village in the country, a promise he made when he stormed to electoral victory in 2014. But a visit to a village in a rural area shows that reality is lagging behind the rhetoric.Connecting People To The Grid In India Isn’t Enough
The United Nations has called for universal access to electricity by 2030 as part of its Sustainable Development Goals. India has been a leader in this effort, declaring in April 2018 that every Indian village had been electrified and committing to ensuring every household was connected by March 2019. There is little doubt that, at least on paper, India will reach that goal. As famed management expert Peter Drucker pointed out, “What gets measured gets done.”
Solarizing Rural health Centers in Jharkhand
Nearly 38 million people in the state of Jharkhand, India, do not have access to critical and basic health services. Decentralized Renewable Energy can empower the 4000 rural health centers with reliable electricity, which will ensure quality health care for all in the state.There’s a Way to End Energy Poverty—And It Has the Side Effect of Making Fossil Fuels Obsolete
You bring your feverish baby to the hospital in the middle of the night. The nurse asks you to go home to get a flashlight. When the flashlight batteries give out, she resorts to a flickering candle to guide the insertion of an IV needle, delivering malaria medicine, into your baby’s hand.Rural electrification in Jharkhand
The 50 or so families living in the tree-lined village of Banasingha, in the Giridih district of Jharkhand were connected to the national power grid under the Government of India’s Saubhagya scheme in 2018. However, with an average of two hours of electricity supply per day, some continue to use kerosene lamps for lighting.How a little-discussed revision of climate science could help avert doom
One of the biggest obstacles to avoiding global climate breakdown is that so many people think there’s nothing we can do about it.
They point out that record-breaking heat waves, fires and storms are already devastating communities and economies throughout the world. And they’ve long been told that temperatures will keep rising for decades to come, no matter how many solar panels replace oil derricks or how many meat-eaters go vegetarian. No wonder they think we’re doomed.
Decentralized renewable energy solutions offer great promises for healthcare facilities
It has been a big challenge for our health infrastructure to deal with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). It has also prompted a wider realisation that we need to strengthen our health institutions, not only for any future waves of pandemics, but even more for ensuring longer, healthier lives for our people.
In normal times, our health institutions face resource constraints, with electricity bills draining their limited resources.
There’s a Way to End Energy Poverty
You bring your feverish baby to the hospital in the middle of the night. The nurse asks you to go home to get a flashlight. When the flashlight batteries give out, she resorts to a flickering candle to guide the insertion of an IV needle, delivering malaria medicine, into your baby’s hand.
Maybe you don’t have a baby. Maybe you travel 14 miles a day by public bus to buy fresh fish to sell in your village. Every day, you must sell the fish before your ice melts and your inventory becomes worthless.
How to design PAYGo operational models to improve repayment
There has been a lot of work exploring why some pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) solar customers stop paying after they are initially granted a loan, most of which has focused on the customer and challenges they encounter, for example, short-term cash flow issues, and challenges with payment logistics, etc. Our goal with this blog is to examine the other side of repayment — what can PAYGo operators do internally with their products, systems, and processes to set customers up for repayment success (or failure)?What do we (not) know about the benefits of households’ electrification?
Household electrification has recently become a controversial topic. When The Economist declared that “electricity does not change poor lives as much as was thought,” a number of non-profits and industry representatives wrote indignant responses (CEO of SolarAid, CrossBoundary) arguing that electricity, including distributed solar power, can be a game-changer for rural communities.
