Japan’s Ricoh has designed a micro hydropower system for sewage plants that could potentially be used in combination with ground-mounted solar or floating PV. The system features a sustainable water ...

THE government has committed to provide electricity to the entire population by 2007. Out of a total of around 130,000 villages, 99,600 were electrified at the end of March 2006. There are still ...

Researchers at the Northwestern Polytechnical University in China have fabricated a flexible photovoltaic micro-power system for applications in wearable electronics. “We built the system by ...

The first time 52-year-old Juliana Balweg-Baawa switched on the light in her home, she jumped for joy. “My children can study at night!” Balweg-Baawa, a native of Mataragan village in the rugged ...

RANAU: In a hill village outside Ranau, the first flicker from a micro-hydro switch turned darkness into possibility and a community into its own power station. It didn’t start with a grand plan. In ...