Two students from Virginia University, Manoj Sinha and Charles Ransler of Darden School of Business, have started a major project with an Indian partner to supply electricity to villages in Bihar by burning rice husk. The partner, Gyanesh Pandey, an engineer, oversees the operations of Husk Power Systems in Bihar. As of now, two pilot rice husk generators provide power to about 10,000 hamlets. The project has the potential to reduce 200 tonnes of carbon emission annually in each village compared to diesel or coal generators. Also, it may help turn the huge piles of husk that accumulate in many villages into two valuable products: ELECTRICITY and ASH, which can be sold to cement factories. The company is planning to put the mini power plants in hundreds of villages within a few years.
Courtesy: The Week, June 8, 2008.
Grateful thanks to The Week.
Courtesy: The Week, June 8, 2008.
Grateful thanks to The Week.
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