(Working towards environmental protection)
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Phone: +91 9437337700
Email: benudharsutar@gmail.com
Kerosene Free Rural Lighting
through
Community Initiative
Situation
• Over 1.6 billion people in the world lack access to
electricity; roughly 25% are in India alone.
• For these people, life comes to a standstill after dusk.
• Inadequate lighting is an impediment to progress and
development opportunities,
• Direct impact on the health, environment, and safety
of billions of villagers as they are forced to light their
homes with kerosene lamps, dung cakes, firewood,
and crop residue after sunset.
Situation……..
Replace
kerosene
lamps
With
Solar
Lantern
kerosene
Transferring
Tech . knowhow
The intervention
• An initiative on the basis of an entrepreneurial model of
energy service delivery.
• Institutional mechanisms is created for delivery of energy
services in the village.
• The model benefits the user and it can sustain the whole
process.
• SHGs are trained to manage and run a solar lantern charging
station where 30 - 50 lanterns would be charged centrally
during the daytime and used in the evening.
The intervention……
 The user would pay for the services that they enjoy.
 This model facilitates entrepreneurship development among
rural communities apart from providing reliable and ensured
lighting to households.
Major activities
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Identification and training of local SHGs
Training to the selected women from the SHGs on solar lantern assembling
Installation of the solar lantern charging stations in the identified location.
Development of appropriate service model with provisions of training and
capacity building for the SHGs.
• Awareness generation among the communities on the benefit of the solar
lantern and its potential use for various livelihood generation activities.
• Sharing and dissemination best practices .
Solar Lantern features
• It is charged by solar panel.
• It is simple and can operate & maintain after short training.
• Uses the world’s most efficient LEDs (light emitting diode) with more than
100,000 hours of life
• When fully charged it will provide up to 18-20 hours of bright light.
• The lamp is able to effectively illuminate a rural household with a room size
of 4m x 4m.
• It is 60 times brighter than a kerosene lamp/lantern.
• Powered by 6volts 4.5AH SMF (sealed maintenance free) easily available for
future replacement
• Inbuilt Charge Controller for solar panel charging.
Development of appropriate business model
• The trained SHG assemble the solar lanterns and market it locally through
their business group and earn substantial income out of it.
• The charging station is modelled as a business activity for the trained
SHGs. The SHGs received technical trainings to effectively operate the
charging station and better manage the business.
• SHGs collect the rent towards the charging of the lanterns on the preagreed terms. Cost towards repair, replacement and maintenance of
equipments borne by the product user as and when required.
• Additional income is earned through renting of lanterns during community
festivals and mobile charging.
Lesson Learnt
• As women is the most over worked in the villages , getting
few hours of extra time by means of providing clean
lighting to them can enhance the opportunity to earn extra
income for the family.
• Need based capacity building is essential to enhance the
capacity of women and to help them address their basic
needs.
• The technological option offered should be simple and
easily transferable to enable the community to adopt it.
• Rural energy technologies are most sustainable when they
are promoted as an enterprise model, which gives
opportunity for income generation, in addition to meeting
basic needs.
Examples of improved situation after getting
the solar lantern for lighting
(Village ULTI, Lohardaga, Jharkhand)
• Engagement of a girl in the village: It was reported that in the village an
engagement ceremony of a village girl was on and suddenly the light went
off during the main function time. The villagers suddenly approached one
of the service stations and the SHGs immediately provided 10-15 lanterns
which lighted up the whole location. This little incident in the village has
changed the peoples mind set and started to appreciate the works of the
SHGs and the demand for the solar lantern has increased.
• Income generation activity: There is lot of Tamarind in the village and the
business people are given the works to villages to separate the seeds from
the Tamarind. One could see in many houses were the solar lanterns are
given the women are using the solar light to get some extra income for
the family.
• Study of the children: The villagers affirmed that this solar light have given
opportunities to the children to study better.
• The villagers also certified that they have not purchased the kerosene for
HH illumination once they got the solar lanterns.
LED Lantern for Rural Households
(Microfinance Model will be used for SHG women members)
Details
LED Lantern + Solar Panel
Solar Lantern
Sale Margin
Bargain
MRP
Cost /Year (minimum life span 5 yrs)
Contingency provision/ year
Cost to Buyer/ Year
Direct Cost Saving/ family
Kerosene in ltrs/ month
12 month cost of Kerosene
Months to meet Cost of lamp
Annual Saving/family/year on fuel
Other benefits
No smoke
Reliable & Efficient during Rain, Strom, Cyclone
20 hours backup (after 1 full charging)
Light output 160 Lux (60 times more brightness than kerosene lamps)
10%
5
1450
100
1550
155
1705
341
3%
51.15
392.15
5
12
75
900
6
508
Sustainable Rural Lighting through SHGs
Chattisgarh - Jagdalpur & Jharkhand –Lohardaga (NABARD supported initiative)
TERI’s LaBL Programme – 53 villages in Odisha
Other Technologies
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Smokeless Chulha – SARALA model
Stabilized Mud Blocks – Fire-free bricks
Hydram units – Irrigation & Drinking water
Customized Solar Power plant – The first
10kwp solar system is under installation in
Kakriguma, Koraput.
• Kitchen waste bio-gas
• Smoke free cooking stove
3-M- Approach
Make
All Appropriate technology should have the
combination of these three elements.
Thank You……