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Piramal Sarvajal solar water ATMs (franchise safe drinking water)A social enterprise that installs water ATMs: solar-powered, cloud-connected purified water dispensing machines operated by a local entrepreneur under a franchise model. Users pay with a prepaid RFID card. An IoT device (Soochak) monitors quality, liters and machine health in real time. It operates hundreds of plants in rural and urban areas across several states.SIRDO - Sistema Integral de Reciclamiento de Desechos Orgánicos (Grupo de Tecnología Alternativa)A dry/ecological sanitation system developed since 1978 by the Grupo de Tecnología Alternativa (GTA), coordinated by architect Josefina Mena Abraham. The dry SIRDO is a double-chamber composting toilet with solar heating that treats excreta and organic waste without water, producing biofertilizer. Its community management placed women at the center of the technical, economic and social operation of the system. It operated in multiple states for decades.Bahía Málaga energy community (solar-diesel hybrid microgrid, La Plata)Energy community in the La Plata archipelago, Uramba Bahía Málaga (Valle del Cauca). FENOGE, with the Ministry of Mines and Energy, installed a solar-diesel hybrid microgrid plus 40 individual solar systems to bring energy from 4 up to 24 hours a day to Afro-descendant settlements (about 291 families). It began operating in May 2025. After the inauguration, the community reported that the system does not work as promised: when the diesel plant fails, the batteries last about two hours, far from the announced 70% solar / 30% diesel; the works were inaugurated without closing out the contract or verifying all the equipment.De CeuvelCircular urban laboratory built in 2014 on a formerly contaminated shipyard in Amsterdam-Noord, granted by the municipality under a temporary concession (winning plan of a 2012 municipal competition, land lent for 10 years). A consortium (Space&Matter with Metabolic's sustainability plan) transformed the toxic soil using phytoremediation and populated the site with ~17 refurbished houseboats serving as offices for creative and social enterprises, plus a café-restaurant and event spaces. It operates as a 'living lab' for cleantech systems: solar panels, helophyte filters for wastewater, an aquaponics greenhouse, struvite reactors to recover nutrients and the Jouliette token for peer-to-peer energy exchange.Coöperatie DeltawindRenewable energy cooperative on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee (Zuid-Holland), founded in August 1989 by island residents who wanted to generate their own green electricity, with more than 2.400 members. It develops and operates wind and solar farms on the island and is co-developer, together with Zeeuwind, of Windpark Krammer. It reinvests profits in local sustainability projects through its cooperative structure and its Stichting Windfonds Goeree-Overflakkee. It is a historic pillar of the Dutch citizen energy cooperative movement.Solar Mamas MalawiEight Malawian women trained at Barefoot College return home to deliver rural solar electrification.
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IRENA–Barefoot College partnership leaves rural footprintInternational Renewable Energy Agency · 2022 · reportdocumentMeet the mamas fighting poverty through solar powerVSO International · 2019 · case_studydocumentLighting the way: How young Colombian entrepreneurs transform lives with second-life batteries and solar powerUnited Nations Development Programme (UNDP) · 2024 · case_studydocumentSocial Enterprises and SDGs: A Case Study of SELCO Solar Light Pvt. Ltd, IndiaWorld Scientific (Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 2, pp. 221-235) · 2022 · case_studydocument
Peer training of non-literate women as solar engineersLearningPeace mediation through water / IWRM / borehole solarizationResults-based financing (RBF) to attract private off-grid solar and clean cooking providersCo-design with the community and training in solar system monitoring and operationProductive-use solar energy applied to fish farming (pumping, refrigeration, lighting)Random sampling with provision of phones and solar chargers