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Schneider Electric, WWF Install Solar-Storage Mini-Grids on Diminishing Islands in India’s Threatened Sundarbans

Published on May 14, 2022 August 1, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Stretching across the Bay of Bengal from on to offshore the coasts of northeast India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans is the world’s largest remaining mangrove... Read more →

Warburg Pincus Planning to Plow $75MM in Indian Rooftop/Residential Solar Developer

Published on May 14, 2022 July 22, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Whether it’s Manila, New Delhi, Nairobi or San Juan, Puerto Rico, expensive, unreliable power grid services raise the cost of living and doing business in... Read more →

Institute for Transformative Technologies Looks to Spur Rural Renewable Electrification

Published on May 14, 2022 July 3, 2017 by Andrew Burger

The Institute for Transformative Technologies’ (ITT) “Utility-in-a-Box” (UiB) is making its debut in India as three private-sector energy services companies (ESCOs) embark on testing and... Read more →

India’s Juice Power Moves Forward with Solar Microgrids Program

Published on May 4, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Renewable and hybrid energy mini and microgrids are playing a growing role in expanding sustainable energy access across the Indian subcontinent. A June 2016 draft... Read more →

Facebook, Microsoft Join in Launch of Sustainable Microgrid Investment Accelerator

Published on April 5, 2017 April 4, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Facebook and Microsoft are joining the growing ranks of leading high-tech industry players aiming to expand sustainable energy access and renewable energy microgrid deployment across... Read more →

Pay-As-You-Go Solar and Microgrids Considered New Class of Infrastructure Investment

Published on January 15, 2017 January 8, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Some 1.4-2 gigawatts (2GW) of small-scale solar power systems (<1MW) have come online in emerging economies since January 2015 , according to Bloomberg New Energy... Read more →

USAID, RBL Bank Partner to Expand Off-Grid, Rooftop Solar in India

Published on December 6, 2016 November 28, 2016 by Andrew Burger

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and government are on a drive to extend electricity and power grid access nationwide, even to the least economically developed... Read more →

ABB, Indian Institute of Technology Microgrid Partnership To Boost Climate-Smart Rural Electrification Drive

Published on January 12, 2017 November 20, 2016 by Andrew Burger

Both India and multinational power engineering market leader ABB are on something of distributed clean energy microgrid construction binges. Along with a fledgling group of... Read more →

Solar DC Microgrid Brings Electricity, Light to 800-Year Old Himalayan Village

Published on January 12, 2017 October 27, 2016 by Andrew Burger

Solar energy-fueled DC microgrids are being installed in remote Himalayan villages that date back 800 years or more in India's Ladakh state, bringing reliable, pollution-free... Read more →