Category Solar power

Women solar entrepreneurs in Bangladesh

Dipal Barua was a co-founder of the Grameen Bank, which does micro loans to the very poor, helping them start businesses. Now he’s working on bringing solar power to Bangladesh, especially to impoverished areas. he’s doing it much the same…

Solar paint

Chicago-based NextGen Solar is doing R&D into solar paint and hopes to make it a commercial product The breakthrough is a new kind of material that can be applied like paint to walls, roofs, windows or just about anything. In…