Solar Energy in India

Inspired by abundant milk in his hometown Nellore, Suhas B Shetty founded Iceberg Organic Icecreams to provide preservative-free, organic options to customers. Distributed across 70 outlets, here’s the story behind his ice cream empire!

Veena Lal from Faridabad has built a unique sustainable home - using mud, stone and wood. The eco-friendly house uses no ACs and the toilets use no additional water.

Vinisha Umashankar, a class 8 student from Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu has designed an award-winning solar ironing cart to reduce the use of charcoal.

The power generated can be as high as 63kW-h on a sunny day, and can drop to 15kW-h per day during the monsoons.

Designed by IIT Bombay, the Solar Urja Lamp (SoUL) project is not only lighting up homes with renewable energy, but is also providing rural women with the chance to become entrepreneurs.