RICE HUSK POWER TO LIGHT UP INDIA’S REMOTE VILLAGES

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA HAS the world found the means to drive rapid growth of distributed power generation in the rural areas? Yes, believes a group of young entrepreneurs in India who are using the rice husk-fired gasification process to operate small generation units in off-grid remote villages. They have already prepared a roadmap to set up 2014 such plants by the year 2014 in India and many more of these in Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, Malaysia, Ecuador and some African countries. For the three-year-old Husk Power Systems, the confidence to achieve the ...


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