Featured in The energy access issue – 07-2020

Bangladesh’s renewables pioneer dreams of a ‘solar nation’

Dipal C Barua started installing rooftop solar systems in Bangladesh when the PV industry itself was in its infancy, with his company Grameen Shakti. Now heading up the Bright Green Energy Foundation, Barua installs small residential systems, streetlights, and irrigation pumps throughout rural Bangladesh under various government programs.

By

Syful Islam

13 Jul 2020

Image: Bright Green Energy Foundation

How would you describe the situation back when Bangladesh installed its first solar home system?As a co-founder of the Grameen Bank, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for microcredit operations, I walked 20,000 villages in the country between 1976 and 1996 where the borrowers insisted us that getting electricity can help them improve their quality of …

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