How this MIT engineer aims to light up rural India

A young entrepreneur with an engineering degree from India's premier engineering school and a postgraduate degree from the US's finest technical school develops an innovative service aimed at......

Indian projects bag Green Oscars

Two Indian enterprises have won top prizes at this year's prestigious Ashden Awards for sustainable energy, popularly known as the 'Green Oscars'. A Kerala-based company BioTech, involved in......

A businessman's crusade against darkness

Harish Hande, CEO, Selco, who has been selected social entrepreneur of the year by the Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation this year, has been in the business of solar electrification since the past 12......

A finance system to light up lives

The main problem with programmes aimed at promoting solar energy is getting consumers to make the initial investment, that's usually quite large, needed to install the system. This is particularly......