News & Blog
All the latest news and blogs from SUNRISE and its related projects.
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Textiles to Terawatts: Royal Society Award to Explore the Global Opportunity for Screen-Printed Photovoltaics
We have received a 2019 Royal Society International Collaboration Award to print photovoltaics in Mexico using their existing screen-printing infrastructure. As part of the Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF), the Royal Society award enables UK research leaders to develop international collaborations with the best researchers from around the world, to…
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SUNRISE International Symposium in Bengaluru, India
We recently gathered in Bengaluru for the fifth biannual SUNRISE Symposium. This year’s meeting saw speakers and attendees travelling all the way from Mexico and Kazakhstan as well as from across India and the UK. There was lots to discuss and plans to make for a very busy upcoming year!…
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Online UK-India Conference on Energy Storage Hosted by SUNRISE
Earlier this week, Dr Jenny Baker and SUNRISE conducted the first online UK-India workshop on electrochemical energy storage. Talks, questions, and networking were all available online. Megan Chick (SPECIFIC) writes about the advantages of a virtual event. SUNRISE is an international project to address global energy poverty with partners from…
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How renewable energy can transfrom slum communities: Q&A with Dr Minna Sunikka-Blank
This series of articles is a partnership between SPECIFIC, SUNRISE and the Active Building Centre. Our projects work with academic, industry and community partners in the UK and the Global South to research and develop solar technologies and to drive change in the construction industry. While our projects each have distinct objectives and approaches,…
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Translating ‘Active Buildings’ to India: Q&A with Arunavo Mukerjee
This series of articles is a partnership between SPECIFIC, SUNRISE and the Active Building Centre. Our projects work with academic, industry and community partners in the UK and the Global South to research and develop solar technologies and to drive change in the construction industry. While our projects each have distinct objectives and approaches,…
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SUNRISE biannual solar energy symposium in Oxford
SUNRISE has recently passed its second birthday as a GCRF project, and in the same month we held our fourth biannual conference! The symposium was hosted this time at the University of Oxford by Professor Henry Snaith. We were joined as usual by several of our partners across India and…
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Power to the people: solar energy project gets £800,000 award to demonstrate how technology benefits developing countries
A Swansea-led project which will help communities in developing countries to generate their own solar power has been awarded £800,000 by the UK government. The money will be used to construct prototype buildings and support collaboration between experts from 5 countries: India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, South Africa, and the UK. Solar…
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Public involvement with a community in India: Q&A with Carol Maddock and Khushboo Ahire
This series of articles is a partnership between SPECIFIC, SUNRISE and the Active Building Centre. Our projects work with academic, industry and community partners in the UK and the Global South to research and develop solar technologies and to drive change in the construction industry. While our projects each have…
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IISc Bangalore install solar power battery in remote village school
The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore (IISc) have installed a 1.5 kW solar power unit at Acharya School, Manchenahalli in Karnataka. The distribution of power in Manchenahalli is very sporadic, and during the day the power is not available in the school. The initial objective of this project is…
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Community Involvement Workshop with Cap-A-Pie
Before we can install any buildings in India, we need to make sure that the receiving communities are fully on board. Without taking into account the human, historical, and social contexts, any new structures and technologies we introduce risk being rejected. We therefore need to involve residents in the process…
