Jon Excell

C2I 2020 Future Thinking Award winner: SUNRISE

In-Depth

An international collaboration led by Swansea University is aiming to demonstrate how low-cost solar technology could help electrify our planet’s poorest and most remote communities. Jon Excell reports.

Whilst global efforts to boost access to electricity have gathered momentum in recent years, there is still a long way to go. Indeed, according to figures from the International Energy Authority (IEA) an estimated 770 million people - around ten per cent of the world’s population - still have no access to electricity. And the problem is at its most acute in some of our planet’s most remote rural communities.

Category: Future Thinking

Winner: SUNRISE

Partners: Swansea University; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune; Imperial College London; Brunel University London, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore; University of Oxford; University of Cambridge; London South Bank University; Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; CINVESTAV Unidad, Mérida; University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Institute of Physics and Technology, Kazakhstan; Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. 

Category Sponsor: Frazer-Nash Consultancy

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