Only then will sustainable energy be their ticket out of poverty, as well as a vital way to address climate change. Harish Hande is managing director of Selco Solar, India Selco Solar was the 2007 ...

Harish Hande is an engineer and social entrepreneur working with underserved communities. He is the co-founder of SELCO whose interventions have impacted more than 800,000 poor households across 6 ...

The bad news is you are totally dead and the good news is you are still young—This is what Denis Hayes, leading environmental activist and founder of the Earth Day, told Harish Hande about the ...

“A street vendor in India might make 800 rupees a month — that’s about $16,” said Harish Hande, founder of Selco Solar in Bangalore. “But he might have to spend as much as 210 rupees of ...

Chairman of SELCO Solar, Harish Hande has been in the sustainable energy space for the last two decades. His aim has been to address poverty by sustainable technologies. In addition to providing ...

How do you help them? How do you help them create assets?” These questions had nagged Harish Hande, one of this year’s recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards, since completing energy ...

Harish Hande co-founded Selco India to eradicate poverty by promoting sustainable technologies in rural India. Since 1995, Selco has built a service network of 28 branches in Karnataka and Gujarat ...

BANGALORE: Harish Hande, winner of the 2011 Ramon Magasaysay Award, urged students to refrain from going abroad for studies as there were enough educational opportunities in India, at an ...

Harish Hande said big solar power plants lead to conflict with land and water and there would be transmission and distribution loss. It’s better to decentralise solar power production and have ...

SELCO Foundation CEO Harish Hande said decentralised renewable energy is a game-changer for rural healthcare. "Saura Swasthya is not just a Karnataka model but a blueprint for the world.

A surge in investment in solar power is bringing down costs of the alternative energy source, but affordability problems still dog hopes for the 1,6-billion people worldwide without electricity ...