ELIMINATING LIGHT POVERTY IN THE WORLD:

TO REPLACE UNSAFE KEROSENE LAMPS WITH CLEAN AND SAFE SOLAR LAMPS

D.T.Barki

Noble Energy Solar Technologies Ltd (NEST)

There’s terrible poverty in the world.

The world of poverty

Food Poverty. Clothes Poverty. Shelter Poverty. There is equally terrible

Light poverty

in the world!

The world will never be better without eliminating the light poverty.

The Solar PV technology is here to support create the enlightened society

Richness

is the Barometer ofLight

World Total Energy Vs Lighting Energy Consumption

World EnergyConsumption

785 X1013

Lighting Energy Reqd By 2 billion people

24X103

(0.0000000008%)

Units

Units

“We will make electricity so cheap

that only the rich will

burn candles”

…was true enough for the industrialized world, but his Statement did not anticipate the plight of 2 billion people -more than the world’s population in Edison’s time – who 100 years later still have no access to electricity.

There are millions of homes in the world

without electricity

And, the people use deadly kerosene Lamps for their basic lighting needs

• About 96 billion liters of kerosene is being burnt annually

• CO2 emission of 260 million tons every year.

• Slow poison

• In India alone, 2.5 million including 3,50,000 children meet with kerosene related accidents

Kerosene is a Killer Fuel

There’s nothing good about kerosene lamps except their elimination

They are inefficient

They are unhealthy They are

expensive

They are dangerous

They leave behind more darkness than the light!

BBC coverage of 6th Aug 2001, which showed the pictures of 28 people charred to death in chains in Erwadi (India).

This startling and chilling incident happened due to

the overturning of hurricanekerosene lantern

Joel, from Peru, is an adorable 7-year old boy with major kerosene burns on his neck and arm causing contractures that prevented him from looking up or raising his left arm.

Source: http://interplast.blogs.com/cusco_peru_surgical_trip/

We can Provide them with

Clean & Safe Solar lamps

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NEST’s Pioneering Work

• AISHWARYA® Brand – A global phenomenon today

•Design & Development of solar lamp suitable for replacing kerosene lamps

•It’s cute

•It’s most reliable

•It’s truly portable

•It’s most affordable

•It’s excellent Gift Article

It’s regarded as the small wonder of the Solar world

The solar lamps are mass promotable The solar lamps are mass promotable for more than one reason:for more than one reason:

• It’s small, lightweight, It’s small, lightweight, portableportable

• Reaches the illiterate and Reaches the illiterate and needyneedy

• Gives hope: Gives hope: Hope that ensures ‘light’ Hope that ensures ‘light’ in their lifein their lifeHope that increases their Hope that increases their self-worth self-worth

• Poor convinced - Rich Poor convinced - Rich not. We found it easier to not. We found it easier to sell solar lamps in sell solar lamps in villages than in cities. villages than in cities. Bcoz the rich enjoy the Bcoz the rich enjoy the ‘cheap’ energy, they ask ‘cheap’ energy, they ask ‘why solar is costly’!... ‘why solar is costly’!...

• Therefore, Our focus –is Therefore, Our focus –is on Poor. on Poor.

• By serving the poor, we By serving the poor, we serve the richserve the rich

We went up to the Remote Corners of AP

NEST achievements

Mr. D.T.Barki ,CMD,NEST with Prince Charles

NEST achievements

NEST Solar products

Model: 6545 Model:6543 Model:127710

Lanterns

NEST Solar products

MNRE SLS GANGA HLS

Street & Home Lighting Systems

NEST productsSolar Panels

Dedicated Module plant for Solar lamps

Module plant

Systems Integration

NEST’s association with Mitsubishi, Japan

With Mr. Mikio Sasaki San, Oct 2006

MSSRF project

• Installed systems: 200 Nos.

• Area of installation: Koraput, Orissa

• Recipient: MSSRF

• Date of Handover: December 2006

• Systems last checked: June 2007

Few snaps: MSSRF project

Few snaps: MSSRF project

Few snaps: MSSRF project

Look at the stark contrast of these two pictures takenwith kerosene and solar lamps separately with the same reading postures of the children during their study

Even if the kerosene lamps are kept almost on the book and the children bowing their head almost over the burning flames of the kerosene lamps, it is difficult for the students to Read the books. With the kind of light these kerosene lamps give, it’s difficult to spot the Book, leave alone the small letters of the book! In contrast the solar lamps give most appropriate light

Sponsored by Katragadda FoundationDec 2005

Education Minister, Mrs.Rajeshwari distributing Aishwarya® solar lamps to students of Guntur district in AP

We’ve everything. We’ve the infinite & ultimate power house – the Sun - in the sky. We’ve abundant silicon on the earth crust. And, We’ve the brilliant solar technology with us… Let’s move towards the kerosene-free world…

Let’s Eliminate

Light Poverty in the World

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