Overview

SunMoksha provides field-installations of microgrid to provide power and water for irrigation in the under-developed regions. The facility is maintained by the community. It caters to a wide range of daily personal and business needs. The regular power supply allows people to run their shops, start new business and works towards catalyzing holistic development of their community.

It is located in Bangalore and have projects in Odisha, Jharkhand, Africa, United States of America and Aghanistan.

Received accolades and awards which includes USAID-DST Millennium Alliance Award, July 2017.

Represented its work at Smart Village Award@Smart Cities Conference & Exhibition, May 2016.

Their projects of implementing Smart Nanogrid™ in Chhotkei and Kudagaon (Odisha) has won the Smart Village Award at the Smart Cities Conference.

As per the organisation, it had garnered accolades from Mr Piyush Goyal, India’s Former Energy Minister at the India Smart Grid Conference and the model has received global attention of researchers from universities across the world.

Projects

Micro-economic zones are centres that are set up at cluster level to work towards providing and accelerating economic development at the community level by providing a central space to the people to engage in livelihood and skill development activities. It is intended towards strengthening local economy by enabling people to envision their social enterprises and employment at the local level. Thus, these centres allows to kick start & sustain several interventions at the village level like agriculture, production, market linkages and water.Thereby, allowing people to make their living in a sustainable way.

SunMoksha has developed smart village at Chhotkei village in Angul, Odisha by providing 30kWp Solar-powered Smart NanogridTM. It is used for supporting 140 households in the village, irrigation and local micro-enterprises which are dependent on source of energy for their regular personal and business requirements like refrigeration, poultry, cold room, welding, cooking, etc. Thus, promoting the villagers towards aiming higher financial growth and stability by addressing the challenges.

Access to light is opening avenues for development in the village as the power supply aids in education, provides entertainment, enables villagers to set up their businesses which are some of the stepping stones towards making the village locally equipped & sustainable.

Total beneficiaries catered under this project are 600 villagers across 140 households.

SunMoksha had set up Smart Microgrid at Kudagaon in Angul district, Odisha. The community has vast farmland area. However, it has always engaged in farming only during monsoon season as it never had access to any source of energy to run irrigation pumps.

With the installation of the Microgrids, it has allowed them to avail a variety of services required to lead a comfortable life like fan, light, cooler, etc. The community takes ownership of the microgrid and the supply is channelized as per their requirement.

This has also allowed people to initiate several livelihood activities and thereby, helping in reversing migration.

Total number of beneficiaries reached: 300

Products

Generates energy by using renewable sources which, in turn, is used to provide consistent power in the village. Thus, it helps to address several grassroots challenges that exists around employment, education, health & livelihood in the community and provides scope for the community led enterprises to attain sustainability.

The product is easy to use and is maintained by the community villagers after taking basic training.

Remotely monitors and manages water supply for agriculture purpose and maintains water quality during the distribution cycle. The product works by using IoT/Cloud technology.

Services

Provides knowledge support and mentoring to corporate, institutions, NGO, government on maximizing the impact of sustainable approaches, renewable source of energy, reducing carbon footprint while aiming for rural & urban development and ensuring triple bottom impact.