[E&E seminars] [MITEI Seminar Series] H.Harish Hande, Selco-India (Oct. 7)

[Karen Gibson]

We are pleased to announce the second speaker in the fall 2008 MIT  
Energy Initiative Seminar Series.  We hope you will join us October 7  
to hear Harish Hande, co-founder and managing director of SELCO-INDIA.

Energy Services for the Poor
H. Harish Hande

	Date:		Tuesday, October 7
	Time: 		4:15 pm – 5:45 PM [Reception follows]
	Location: 	66-110 (Landau Building, 25 Ames Street, MIT Campus)

Abstract
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.

About the Speaker
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.

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 http://mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/ 
  or contact Jameson Twomey at jtwomey at mit.edu

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Other upcoming MITEI seminars:

November 18, 2008
Zero Energy Buildings: Potentials and Realities
Stephen Selkowitz, Department Head, Building Technologies Department,  
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

December 2, 2008
The Sustainable Energy Challenge
George Crabtree, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

February 10, 2009
Recent advances, new trends, and future challenges within the Li-ion  
battery energy storage system
Jean-Marie Tarascon, Professor, Université de Picardie Jules Verne,  
Member of the French Academy of Science

March 10, 2009
Sunlight-driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported  
Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
Nate Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California  
Institute of Technology

April 14, 2009
Revising Limits in Energy Conversion Using Nanostructures
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

May 5, 2009
Meeting U.S. Energy and Climate Challenges with Rational Policy
Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration  
and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Director of the University of California Energy Institute


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