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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,…
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SUNRISE announced International Collaboration of the Year in the sixteenth annual THE Awards
Swansea University in collaboration with international and UK institutions has lifted the International Collaboration of the Year trophy at the sixteenth annual THE Awards. The THE Awards – widely referred to as the ‘Oscars of higher education’ – are the biggest celebration in the UK HE calendar, attracting hundreds of entries from individuals, teams and…
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IISc Bangalore install a solar micro-grid in a primary health centre in Dharwad
Professor Satish Patil, Dr Chithambararaj and their team at IISc Bangalore have successfully installed a 5.2kW solar-powered micro-grid in a primary health centre in Gudageri, Dharwad. The health centre provides care for 20-30,000 people from nearby rural villages, including delivering an average of 10 infants per month. They have a maternity unit and a deep…
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Hosting a Conference During a Pandemic: SUNRISE Symposium 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unforeseeable disruption worldwide and forced us all to find creative alternatives to our usual ways of working. We were disappointed to be unable to host our biannual symposium in Swansea this year as planned, but despite this, we were still able to have a successful conference via online platforms. We…
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SUNRISE selected as case study for OECD report on transdisciplinary research
SUNRISE has been selected as a case study for an OECD report on ‘Addressing societal challenges using transdisciplinary research.’ In May 2019, Dan Sparks, Policy Manager (Global Challenges Research Fund) at UKRI, recommended SUNRISE as a potential ‘good practice’ case study for an OECD Global Science Forum project focused on analysing the theory, methods, and…
