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BRAC Solar

A BRAC Social Enterprise

Lighting up lives with alternative energy supply

 

Background

BRAC Solar Energy Program for Sustainable Development was launched in December 1998. An integrated and multipurpose program, its projects spread across the country in a wide variety of settings including households, BRAC and other NGO offices, training centres, schools, health clinics, cyclone shelters, a weather monitoring station, a government rest house and income generating centres such as carpentry, tailoring shops, cloth dyeing and printing shops, leather workshops, restaurants and grocery shops. The project operated with an aim to change the overall socio-economic status of rural people of the project areas by creating new jobs, increasing the education hours and helping the poor to carry out income generating activities. With support fromWB/GEF/GTZ/Kfw BRAC installed capacity 1.38 Mw( September , 2007)  Standalone Solar Home System to provide electricity in rural off-grid areas andserved 56,444( March 31, 2010) beneficiaries.

BRAC Solar today

BRAC Solar today operates as one of BRAC’s three Green Enterprises, and has come up with energy-efficient and affordable solar solutions.

BRAC Green Enterprises, with its enduring commitment to environmental principles in its business operations, is participating in environmentally friendly activities to ensure that all processes, products, and services adequately address current environmental concerns. BRAC Green Enterprises is a combination of three enterprises, which work under an umbrella to provide green solutions for the corporate urban market: BRAC Solar Enterprise works for power solutions, BRAC Nursery for landscaping and plant rental, and BRAC Recycled Paper for office stationeries. Together, this group of green enterprises is engaged in the production of environment-friendly products, and are consequently aiding in the social uprising of green initiatives in both rural and urban communities. This initiative in is very unique, because many enterprises in the renewable energy sector sell exiting products in existing markets, but BRAC Green Enterprises has introduced a complete office solution and its widespread usage can accelerate the process of greening the corporate world in our country.

For more information, visit BRAC Solar at:

BRAC Kanon

205/1/B Gulshan Tejgaon Link Road (Opposite of Gulshan Aarong), Dhaka

Call: 01729071213, 01711809311. Email: brac.solar@brac.net

 

Quick Stats

BRAC Solar so far has installed 72,470 Solar Home System all over Bangladesh under IDCOL

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