News & Blog
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Understanding the impact of a new solar building: participatory films with the people of Khuded
To carry out monitoring and evaluation of the new Solar OASIS building, our community involvement team were awarded some funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. As part of this project (DEBATE), we worked with InsightShare and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences to provide Khuded villagers with the means to create their own…
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New community involvement project uses participatory video techniques to assess the impact of the SUNRISE building
The next exciting development in the SUNRISE journey has commenced! The community involvement team has been awarded some additional funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants fund to carry out monitoring and evaluation of the SUNRISE Solar OASIS building from the perspective of the local Khuded residents. This small (but important) piece of research…
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Community involvement with the people of Khuded: Q&A with Khushboo Ahire
Above: Khushboo Ahire (centre) carrying out community involvement activities with a group of women from Khuded, Maharahstra. Our first full-scale building demonstrator – the Solar OASIS – is now up and running, providing the people of Khuded village with clean, solar-generated, reliable electricity. However, before construction could begin, it was important that the villagers themselves…
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Professor Dinesh Kabra’s optoelectronics research featured in Nature
SUNRISE network member Professor Dinesh Kabra has been featured in a Nature article discussing his research into next-generation optoelectronics. Optoelectronic materials are used in solar cells and display technologies. Dinesh’s research focuses on unconventional, more efficient materials such as halide perovskites and organic semiconductors. Dinesh and his team at the National Centre of Photovoltaic Research…
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The Solar OASIS: Clean, green, reliable electricity for village as first Active Building in India opens
A village in rural India will now get clean, reliable electricity for the first time, thanks to our newly opened Solar-OASIS building, which generates, stores and releases its own solar power. Around 770 million people globally still lack access to electricity. Buildings account for 40% of all the world’s carbon emissions. This new building in India helps…
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SUNRISE’s first building demonstrator begins construction in Khuded, India
We have started construction on our first solar-powered demonstrator building in the village of Khuded in Maharahstra, India. Khuded, like many rural villages in India, is connected to the grid but struggles with an unreliable and unaffordable electricity supply. Most residents therefore rely on burning fuels such as kerosene and firewood, both of which come…
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Green Solvents: Developing a Framework for Making Safer, More Sustainable Solar Cells
A paper on green solvents for the manufacture of solar cells has been co-authored by SPECIFIC at Swansea University, KAUST in Saudi Arabia, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa. This is the first joint paper between UK, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa to be published with support from SUNRISE. The paper focuses…
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SUNRISE virtual international symposium on ‘Energy Sustainability and Water’
Last week, we held our seventh biannual symposium for our global SUNRISE partners on the theme of ‘Energy Sustainability and Water’. This year, it was IIT Kanpur’s turn to host and would have been held on their campus, but due to Covid-19 regulations we were on zoom once more. With the support of NanoGe, and…
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Indian innovator Sonam Wangchuk to give talk at upcoming SUNRISE symposium
Next Monday, Indian innovator and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk will be presenting at our biannual SUNRISE symposium, hosted online this year by IIT Kanpur. Find out a bit more about him below, and why we are excited to hear him talk. Wangchuk is known for inventing the ‘Ice Stupa’, an artificial glacier used for storing…
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OASIS building demonstrator programme presented to UK Foreign Secretary in Bengaluru, India.
The announcement was made by the SUNRISE project, led by Swansea University, during a showcase of British-Indian innovation attended by UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, in front of an audience of potential collaborators and investors. The Active Buildings concept has already been proven to work. The Active Office and Classroom, built on Swansea University’s campus,…