<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Univers; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><div>We are pleased to announce the second speaker in the fall 2008 MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series. We hope you will join us TUESDAY, October 7 to hear Harish Hande, co-founder and managing director of SELCO-INDIA.</div></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Univers; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Univers; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><b>Energy Services for the Poor</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Univers; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><b>H. Harish Hande</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Univers; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Univers; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><div align=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Tuesday, October 7</div><div align=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Time: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>4:15 pm – 5:45 PM [Reception follows]</div><div align=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Location: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>66-110 (Landau Building, 25 Ames Street, MIT Campus)</div><div align=""> </div></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12.1px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Univers; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><b>Abstract </b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The poor in the world pay more for energy services, which are often unreliable and from unsustainable sources. There are ways to provide the poor with energy services from sustainable energy sources using innovative combinations of technology and finance. Renewable energies, such as solar, can provide solutions for a better environment and help to alleviate poverty. </font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>About the Speaker</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Dr. Harish Hande is an engineer and a renewable energy entrepreneur with extensive grassroots experience in meeting the energy requirements of rural households. He is the co-founder of SELCO-INDIA of which he is the Managing Director. SELCO-India is a rural energy service based out of Bangalore, India. Since 1995, SELCO-India has installed over 95,000 solar lighting systems in rural households. His experience includes a large number of health, education and water related projects: over 500 small rural and urban health clinics, over 1000 rural and semi-urban schools and dormitories, and over 1500 irrigation and drinking water systems. Dr. Hande also is on the board of many national and international organizations.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">The seminars in the MITEI series take place each month in room 66-110 from 4:15 -5:45 pm and are followed by a reception. For more information, please visit the MITEI website at <a href="http://mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/">http://mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/</a> or contact Jameson Twomey at <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><a href="mailto:jtwomey@mit.edu">jtwomey@mit.edu</a></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">_____________________________________________</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Other upcoming MITEI seminars in the series:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">November 18, 2008</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Zero Energy Buildings: Potentials and Realities</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Stephen Selkowitz, Department Head, Building Technologies Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">December 2, 2008</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The Sustainable Energy Challenge</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">George Crabtree, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">February 10, 2009</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Recent advances, new trends, and future challenges within the Li-ion battery energy storage system</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Jean-Marie Tarascon, Professor, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Member of the French Academy of Science</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">March 10, 2009</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Sunlight-driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Nate Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">April 14, 2009</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Revising Limits in Energy Conversion Using Nanostructures</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Arun Majumdar, Almy & Agnes Maynard Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley and Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">May 5, 2009</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Meeting U.S. Energy and Climate Challenges with Rational Policy</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Director of the University of California Energy Institute</font></div><div><br></div></font></div></font></div></body></html>