Grameen Shakti

Grameen Shakti (GS) is one of the leading social business organizations in the world, founded by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus in 1996, with the goal of enhancing "Access to Energy" for Bangladesh's rural residents. As of now, GS has installed more than 1.8 million Solar Home System (SHS), 35,000 domestic biogas plants and disbursed 1 million Improved Cooking Stoves. Grameen Shakti provides sustainable clean energy solutions, primarily in rural areas of Bangladesh. Though renewable energy or energy efficiency is in the core of all the activities, they also consider other key aspects like empowering women, creating green jobs, alleviating Poverty, reducing greenhouse gases emission, and building up healthy communities In Grameen Shakti, there are two prongs of activities which are (a) Socio-Economic, and (b) Development Activities. Through Socio Economic activities, Grameen Shakti generates revenue for sustainability through activities creating social Impact. This wing offers solutions/products like (a) Solar Roof-top System (b) Solar PV module (c) solar battery (d) Biogas (c) electric 3 wheelers battery, etc. Through Development Activities, Grameen Shakti enhances Social Bottom Line in a sustainable manner, adding to financial sustainability. Though this wing we conceptualize new ideas,design and deveopment project and create operational and business model. This wing has implemented/implementing projects/activities like (a) Smart Peer-to-peer (P2P) Solar Electricity Trading (b) Eco-village development, (c) Pay-As-You-Go electric 3 wheelers (d) WePOWER (e) Energy Transition platform (f)Training module development on clean energy technologies etc.