KEY FACTS Built and launched India’s first solar ferry, the Aditya Won the Guastave Trouve Award for ‘Worlds Best Electric Ferry’ in 2020 Transported over 1.5 million passengers across backwaters without a single drop of fuel Building India’s first solar electric fishing boats Navalt designs and builds solar electric boats for safe and affordable travel…
KEY HIGHLIGHTS Over 1,400 loans disbursed to finance electric vehicles (INR 10+ Crores in disbursement) 90% Loans disbursed to financially underserved (New-To-Credit) customers residing in Tier 3/4 towns and cities of India Founded in 2018, RevFin provides loans to underserved consumers, primarily for financing clean technologies. One example of this is Electric Rickshaw financing which…
Key Facts Ranked as south Asia’s top “think tank” and rated 15th globally Launched a $3 million programme – Powering Livelihoods – to scale up clean energy for rural livelihoods in partnership with Villgro The Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) uses data, integrated analysis, and strategic outreach to explain – and change –…
KEY FACTS Servicing more than 30,000 households and empowering 23 waste picking entrepreneurs Created over 250 predictable livelihoods for wastepickers Diverting over 1000 tonnes of waste per month away from landfills Setting up a 30 tonne per day organic waste to compressed bio gas facility Hasiru Dala Innovations is a social enterprise that is focused…
S4S Technologies is an Indian food dehydration and preservation company with a solar-powered farm-based supply chain. It installs patented solar powered dehydrators at farm level to convert fruit and veg into value added dehydrated products. S4S then buys back these produce from women farmers and sells them in B2B and B2C markets to general assured…
Key Facts Holds data for 1.8m SMEs Strategic partnership with the Confederation of Indian Traders and its 70m+ members Millions of creditworthy SMEs in developing economies are underserved or unserved by the formal financial sector. CreditEnable can connect millions of creditworthy SMEs to lenders, which helps to address an $8.1 trillion market for SME credit…
VIP designs and manufactures a combined heat and power plant that uses various biomass crop waste as fuel to produce productive heat and three-phase power off grid and on demand. VIP employs a design referral model, working with a range of manufacturers to source processing equipment that customers can plug into the VIP power unit and grow their…
Husk is one of the world’s leading off-grid utilities, providing reliable power to rural communities and businesses. They design, install and operate small-scale power plants that convert solar energy or agricultural waste into affordable electricity for people in rural India and East Africa. By using solar energy to generate power in the day and biomass…
KEY FACTS Since 2015, have upgraded 1000 drivers from manual to e-rickshaws in six cities in Uttar Pradesh Launched Project Vahini – an initiative to promote safe and affordable transport for female commuters and improve safety and income for women drivers Won a 2019 Ashden Award for Sustainability in the International Social Mobility category SMV’s…
KEY FACTS In addition to core countries of Kenya, Mexico and India, Sistema.bio is running pilots with partners in eight other countries across four continents More than 180,000 farmers and family members being impacted by renewable cooking fuel, organic fertiliser and cleaner air quality Recognised at World Economic Forum for Social Entrepreneurship, and Ashden Awards…