News & Blog
All the latest news and blogs from SUNRISE and its related projects.
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Inclusive energy transitions: Q&A with Prof Minna Sunikka-Blank
Professor Minna Sunikka-Blank is a Professor of Architecture and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge, as well as a member of the TEA@SUNRISE leadership group. She chats to Georgia about the challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary working, the necessity of including women’s views to ensure inclusive energy transitions, and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…