Abellon Clean Energy Limited

REPORTER: ALAM BAINS

Abellon CleanEnergy is an integrated sustainable energy solutions provider with a vision to contribute to clean energy generation through focus on bio energy, including bio pellets, bio fuels, bio power, and other forms of clean energy generation. Abellon's core purpose is to increase energy access globally in a sustainable manner.

Abellon has a portfolio of low-carbon energy technologies and a range of products and services, which together can meet the demands from the industrial, public and commercial sectors, as well as the community on a large scale. Driven by a set of core values Abellon is charting its course in the global renewable energy sector with a strong focus and presence in the bio energy segment.

Abellon is a founder-member of the BioEnergy Council of India (BECI) an organization established to promote and coordinate the development of the BioEnergy industry in India. Abellon currently produces 65,000 tonnes of biomass pellets a year, avoiding around 110,000 tonnes of CO2. 

It is the winner of Ashden International Award for Sustainable Energy 2011 and has won Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Award two years in a row.

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SELCO: Lighting up the Lives of the Rural Poor

Reporter : Alam Bains

SELCO Solar Pvt. Ltd, a social enterprise established in 1995 and is based in Bangalore. It provides sustainable energy solutions and services to under-served households and businesses. SELCO aims to empower its customer by providing a complete package of product, service and consumer financing through grameena banks, cooperative societies, commercial banks and micro-finance institutions.

Since 1995, SELCO has a total of 25 energy service centers in Karnataka and Gujarat, a skill force of over 170 employees with 115,000 + solar home lighting systems in 15 years and the largest solar water heating system for a single client in India.  It has been awarded the Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2005 and Ashden Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2007. 

SELCO’s key features are creating products based on end user needs, installation and after-sales service and standardized financing packages. SELCO focuses on its customers and provides them with the best energy products, service, and access to affordable finance.

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Husk Power System

Something spectacular happened on the 60th anniversary of India’s Independence in a remote and run-down village of Tamkuha in the infamous Dhanaha region of West Champaran district in the state of Bihar which experienced electricity for the first time. The work was done under the banner of Samta Samriddhi Foundation, an NGO setup by Gyanesh Pandey and Ratnesh Yadav in Bihar. Gyanesh Pandey and Ratnesh Yadev, both native of Bihar and budding entrepreneurs saw opportunity in Rural Electrification. The conventional technologies and grids have failed to deliver and the pervasive energy starvation in the country is a rather known reality. The only solution left was to think out of the box for some non-conventional means of power generation which in any-case had to be affordable to the masses.

The answer they came out with was Rice Husk, the only Bio-waste in the lives of rural folks.

Meeting out intelligently and courageously with initial technical problems the duo with much appreciation from Mr. S.K. Singh, a scientist with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, undertook the revolutionary task of shifting the paradigm in the rural as well as renewable energy space. And, thus Husk Power System was born.    For further insight, click here