ElectriFI doubles down on Husk Power Systems with $4 mn investment, accelerates clean energy accessHusk has delivered reliable, clean electricity to remote communities, households, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and fac...
Bright future comes in small sizes: Mini grids promise to electrify the countryPatchy electricity connection in India’s hinterlands remains a big obstacle for development. Solar’s ability to be successfully deployed in...
Mini is mighty: How Patna-based Husk Power is electrifying rural areas around the worldWhile some of the world’s top renewable energy firms are facing financial constraints, a Patna-based company with a unique business model i...
Husk Power Systems secures $6 mn debt finance from EDFI ElectriFIThe new microgrids are in addition to the more than 120 microgrids that Husk already owns and operates in India.
Generating electricity for millions: Husk Power bolsters Modi's dream of power to allHusk Power aims to provide electricity by using 100% renewable power with help of decentralised mini-grids.
Husk Power raises $20 mn for its mini-grid businessFirm has received the sum from multiple sources and plans to use it in scaling business operations in Asia and Africa.
Goodyear working on extracting silica from rice husk ash for use in tyres: Surendra Chawla"Traditionally, we use carbon black to provide strength to rubber. But silica has certain unique properties over carbon black."
- Alstom grants Euros 90K to Husk Power Systems Project for a green project
Alstom disbursed a Euro 90K grant to a husk power systems project which aims to minimize water usage by over 80% and save 150,000 tons of C...
- Husk Power Systems: Spreading light and opportunity in the hinterlands
Patna-based Husk Power Systems (HPS), a five-year-old off-grid electricity company, uses discarded rice husks to generate power.
- Two Indian firms win green energy awards
Two Indian firms have won the prestigious Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, considered as the "Green Oscar".
- Two Indian firms win green energy awards
Two Indian firms have won the prestigious Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, considered as the "Green Oscar".
- Two Indian firms win Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy
Two Indian firms have won the prestigious Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, considered as the "Green Oscar".
- Usher Agro to extract silica from rice husk ash
Mumbai-based Usher Agro, a rice and wheat processor that came out with a QIP recently, has procured license for silica precipitation techno...
- Why wait for gas? NRIs power West Champaran with rice husk
A small group of US-based NRIs have set up rice husk-based power-generating units in the area, lighting up some 500-700 households spread o...
- Gen Y entrepreneurs bet big on clean-tech innovations
It is not everyday that a young consultant at McKinsey & Co trades in a job at the firm’s Seattle office for the rough and tumble of busine...
- Rice husk power: Virginia venture for Bihar villages
Two Virginia University students have started a project with an India-based partner to supply electricity to villages in Bihar by burning r...
- Coir body for ban on use of coconut husk for power production
The Tamil Nadu State Coir Associations' Federation on Monday demanded a total ban on use of coconut husk to generate biomass power, saying ...