Category: News & Blog
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TEA@SUNRISE to lead the Ayrton Challenge on Next Generation Solar
TEA@SUNRISE has been selected by the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to lead the Ayrton Challenge on Next Generation Solar. This is one of twelve Challenges which are the focus of the Ayrton Fund, a commitment by the UK Government to spend up to £1 billion of Official Development Assistance on the…
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“After SUNRISE” workshops help illuminate sustainable energy transitions in rural India
India’s journey towards sustainable energy is gaining momentum, and recent workshops held as part of the “After SUNRISE” project are playing a pivotal role in understanding such transitions. In particular, the project is ensuring that transitions can benefit all equally. About “After SUNRISE” Funded by the Swansea University ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, “After SUNRISE” builds…
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New collaboration to support sustainable, locally manufactured solar PV in Africa, Asia, and the Indo-Pacific
A new collaboration led by Swansea University is aiming to increase local production of sustainable, affordable solar photovoltaics (PV) in Africa, Asia, and the Indo-Pacific. Building on the pre-existing SUNRISE network, the Transforming Energy Access (TEA) at SUNRISE project is a collaboration between the UK and countries in Africa, Asia, and the Indo-Pacific. To support…
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Understanding the impact of a new solar building: participatory films with the people of Khuded
To carry out monitoring and evaluation of the new Solar OASIS building, our community involvement team were awarded some funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. As part of this project (DEBATE), we worked with InsightShare and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences to provide Khuded villagers with the means to create their own…
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New community involvement project uses participatory video techniques to assess the impact of the SUNRISE building
The next exciting development in the SUNRISE journey has commenced! The community involvement team has been awarded some additional funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants fund to carry out monitoring and evaluation of the SUNRISE Solar OASIS building from the perspective of the local Khuded residents. This small (but important) piece of research…
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Community involvement with the people of Khuded: Q&A with Khushboo Ahire
Above: Khushboo Ahire (centre) carrying out community involvement activities with a group of women from Khuded, Maharahstra. Our first full-scale building demonstrator – the Solar OASIS – is now up and running, providing the people of Khuded village with clean, solar-generated, reliable electricity. However, before construction could begin, it was important that the villagers themselves…
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Professor Dinesh Kabra’s optoelectronics research featured in Nature
SUNRISE network member Professor Dinesh Kabra has been featured in a Nature article discussing his research into next-generation optoelectronics. Optoelectronic materials are used in solar cells and display technologies. Dinesh’s research focuses on unconventional, more efficient materials such as halide perovskites and organic semiconductors. Dinesh and his team at the National Centre of Photovoltaic Research…
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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…