Hemant Lamba is the recipient of the ‘Green Oskar’ award for his work on distribution of reliable and cheap solar devices in 12 Indian states. Lamba and his teammates successfully delivered affordable, reliable and renewable energy

Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...

 products (in the form of solar panel

Photovoltaic module

A solar panel is a packaged, connected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells...

s), benefiting about 80,000 people. The Ashden Trust of the Sainsbury

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’s trusts in Britain

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 set up the awards in 2001. Each award comes with $50,000 towards improving the project.

Lamba and his team have brought government

Government

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, bank

Bank

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s, non-governmental organisations and manufacturers together to deliver products that are relatively effective and affordable. 250 local people have been trained in maintaining the power supply through renewable energy resources. Lamba is now working to make these projects more popular. Lamba

Lamba

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's goal is to attract private enterprises to set up new networks and franchises to link all these elements.