Grameen Shakti - 2008 Ashden Award winner

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Grameen Shakti won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2008. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog

Grameen Shakti won a first prize Ashden Award in 2006 for providing photovoltaic (PV) solar-home-systems through affordable loans to 65,000 households in Bangladesh. Its work has expanded rapidly and diversified. With 2,000 staff now operating from 400 local offices, a total of 150,000 solar-home-systems have been installed. In the past two years Grameen Shakti has also sold 14,000 cheap, efficient cooking stoves and 3,000 biogas plants. Trained technicians, mostly women, manufacture components in 20 technology centres, and install and service systems. Some of these technicians have become independent entrepreneurs. Grameen Shakti aims to have provided a million solar-home-systems, 10 million improved stoves, and half a million biogas plants by 2015.

Channel: Nonprofits & Activism
Uploaded: June 24, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Author: AshdenAwards

Length: 00:07:36
Rating: 4.60
Views: 1045

Tags: bangladesh Grameen Shakti solar pv biogas stove ashden awards renewable sustainable energy

Video Comments:
ngyoonoon (September 25, 2008 at 12:51 pm)
It is good to know that unity among the poor is the basis solving their own poverty.
10% of the world,s rich people depends on the 90% poor to work and made others wealthy.
Therefore, the Grameen is gathering the poor to help themselves out of poverty. May God bless them for their efforts.
GUNAPILLAI (September 6, 2008 at 8:45 am)
excelentwork. i am in the opinion that all villages in the world to come up like this . so that people moving to town will deminish in long term. your web address?
AshdenAwards (September 9, 2008 at 1:30 pm)
You can get all the contact details of Grameen Shakti on the Ashden Awards website - just check our profile for a link.
buofuone (August 16, 2008 at 9:13 am)
I am interested in promoting your product in my village and environs since our government has refused to give us electricity, water or road system. We have to take the bull by the horn ourselves. We need to make solar panels and connect them for electricity and also be able to assemble a solar stove for rural cooking so that villagers should stop decimating the only forests we have left. Let me know the cost of course materials.We willpay. Thanks for your assistance and may God bless. Felix.
AshdenAwards (August 18, 2008 at 11:03 am)
If you go to our website you can look up Grameen Shakti and our other winners. There are contact details available and you can get in touch with them to ask questions.
neotoy (June 27, 2008 at 2:21 am)
I'm surprised that the "rocket stove" was not mentioned rather than the more conventional design, combine the solar with the rocket stove and you'd have the rural community of the future.
AshdenAwards (June 27, 2008 at 9:44 am)
They are using efficient stoves now, just a different design from the Rocket (which some of our other winners have used).

Part of the challenge in getting new stove designs accepted by people is making sure they can use them in a similar way to their existing stove.

If the rural people in Bangladesh are used to indoor stoves low to the ground, then the design used in this video might be more acceptable than a Rocket stove.