The International Energy Agency is sharing the stories of the clean energy innovators who are vital to addressing the world’s energy and climate challenges and take us a net zero emissions future.
This season of Innovation Frontlines focuses on innovators and entrepreneurs in India, featuring in-depth and personal interviews with founders of clean energy technology start-ups. Each episode helps illuminate a different part of the technology challenge: What is the right business model for batteries in a country like India? How do you raise financing for a new fuel cell invention? Where are the opportunities in international value chains? How can technology and social entrepreneurship work together?
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The International Energy Agency is sharing the stories of the clean energy innovators who are vital to addressing the world’s energy and climate challenges and take us a net zero emissions future.
This season of Innovation Frontlines focuses on innovators and entrepreneurs in India, featuring in-depth and personal interviews with founders of clean energy technology start-ups. Each episode helps illuminate a different part of the technology challenge: What is the right business model for batteries in a country like India? How do you raise financing for a new fuel cell invention? Where are the opportunities in international value chains? How can technology and social entrepreneurship work together?
In 2019, India achieved a historic landmark of reaching near-universal household connectivity to electricity, meaning that over 900 million citizens have gained an electric connection to their households in the past two decades. However, power outages continue in large parts of the country. In some areas, such outages can last for several hours on a daily basis. Deploying renewable energy quickly in these communities would help address a range of issues, including air pollution from the use of backup generators as well as energy inequity and female participation in the workforce. Savitha Sridharan founded Orora Global in 2014 as a social enterprise with a technological solution: the Orora PowerHub. This product can combines solar photovoltaics and batteries in different configurations to in a couple of innovative ways to meet the specific needs of low-income communities in India. Today, Orora is helping to cheaply power sewing machines, fridges and lighting to a path out of a cycle of poverty. This conversation, recorded in early March 2022, covers Savitha’s passions for engineering, social impact and running, as well as her successes in raising skills and capital in both India and the United States.
Innovation Frontlines
The International Energy Agency is sharing the stories of the clean energy innovators who are vital to addressing the world’s energy and climate challenges and take us a net zero emissions future.
This season of Innovation Frontlines focuses on innovators and entrepreneurs in India, featuring in-depth and personal interviews with founders of clean energy technology start-ups. Each episode helps illuminate a different part of the technology challenge: What is the right business model for batteries in a country like India? How do you raise financing for a new fuel cell invention? Where are the opportunities in international value chains? How can technology and social entrepreneurship work together?
