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Reaching the BoP: Micro-grid Payment and Metering Solutions – Part 2

Part I of the article highlighted the need for decentralized energy solutions, and various products and services offered by private enterprises to meet the energy needs of rural poor households. Fixed Payments and Metering Solutions Commercial micro-grid enterprises with solutions to provide reliable power supply, are gradually building trust among low-income consumers. Mechanisms to enhance payment [...]

5 / 6 / 2013

Clean Energy, Sankalp Enterprise

Reaching the BoP: Micro-grid Payment and Metering Solutions

On the occasion of World Environment Day, Sankalp Forum is running an online campaign to showcase clean energy enterprises that are having a positive impact on pressing environmental issues. In this blog, we highlight enterprises that are using technology to break barriers of adoption of clean energy. It is ironic how an energy resource-rich nation [...]

4 / 6 / 2013

Clean Energy, Sankalp Enterprise

World Environment Day Tweetchat: How are businesses addressing environmental issues?

Social innovation has been hard at work, devising and applying creative ideas to solve development issues.

3 / 6 / 2013

Clean Energy, Sankalp Chat, Sankalp Enterprise, Tweetchat

Entrepreneur Blog Videos: Avani Bio Energy

Sankalp Finalist 2013 Avani Bio’s founder talks about how his company creates value from waste to generate electricity from pine needles. He also talks about what takes him into the Himalayas and keeps him ticking.

15 / 5 / 2013

Clean Energy

Choosing an incubator for your social enterprise

So you’ve finally succumbed, and decided to scratch your entrepreneurial itch. Not satisfied with just creating any entrepreneurial venture, you’ve decided you want to concentrate on solving some of society’s knottiest problems. You’ve decided you want to be a social entrepreneur. Getting a social enterprise started is difficult in itself. Don’t go it alone – [...]

18 / 2 / 2013

Access to Finance, Agriculture, Food & Rural Business, Capacity Building, Clean Energy, Education, Health, Water & Sanitation, Technology for Development