Grameen Shakti receives Globe Energy Award
Grameen Shakti (GS) has won the First Place under the National Energy Globe Award 2007, says a press release.
It is one of the 15 best projects, out of 800 contenders from all over the world.
GS has also been selected as one of three nominees under the air category for the Energy Globe Award 2007. It has won these recognitions because of its unique and impressive programme to bring light, energy and income to energy-starved rural Bangladesh through renewable energy technologies.
Dipal Barua, managing director of Grameen Shakti, received thee awards in the Plenary Hall of the European Parliament in Brussels on May 26. Eminent personalities such as European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pottering, EU Commission President Jose Manual Barroso, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev attended the ceremony
Grameen Shakti, a worldwide leading rural-based renewable energy provider, has installed 160,000 solar home systems, over 3000 biogas plants and 15000 improved cooking stoves.
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