28th July 2024
EP Report
The ‘Summit-Friendship Solar Village’ project, located in Gaibandha, has received the prestigious Reuters’ Global Energy Transition Awards 2024 under the ‘Projects of Impact’ category in New York, USA on 25th June 2024.
Among 500 entries this year from around the globe, this project was nominated for its concrete results in terms of improved energy affordability, and compensation for losses to improve local resilience to climate change.
This 57.6 kW scalable solar microgrid now benefits 3,000 people from the remote, sedimentary island (called a Char) Kabilpur of Gaibandha district and acts as a hub for other neighboring islands in the river Brahmaputra.
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