Year: 2019

Year: 2018

Husk Power Systems receives $20 million investment

Husk Power Systems, a leading rural distributed utility company operating mini-grids in Asia and Africa, today announced a US $20 million equity investment* by Shell Technology Ventures LLC, Swedish development finance..

Year: 2017

Husk Won Ashden award

Husk Power is connecting remote villages in Bihar to a clean, reliable electricity supply, which provides better light, harnesses a widespread..

Manoj Sinha speaks with Business Standard in 2017

Tamkuha was one of the first villages Husk (earlier called Husk Power Systems) decided to light up through its gasification technology..

Year: 2015

Giving Back in Biomass Magazine

Manoj Sinha’s dream of providing power to areas of his native India where limited or no electricity is available has become a reality…

Husk Power Systems in The Hindu

Husk Power Systems has been a Shell Foundation partner since 2008, and has over 75 operational plants in Bihar..

Husk Power in The Huffington Post

Husk has installed 84 mini-power plants, providing electricity to more than 200,000 people in 300 rural villages in India…

Year: 2014

Energy: Islands of Light

Pandey and Yadav formed Husk Power Systems with Manoj Sinha, who studied business at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and the company…

Continental Affiliate Teams Up With Husk Power Systems For Tanzania

Tanzanian affiliate, Ruaha River Power Company Ltd. has entered into a joint venture agreement with Husk Power Systems..

Cheap Electricity for Poor Squeezing Out Solar in India

The villagers of Dharnai in northern India had been living without electricity for more than 30 years..

Year: 2013

Founding Partner for President Obama Power Africa

Named Founding Partner for President Obama Power Africa Initiative and awarded US $997,000 to install 20 biomass power plants, 2013..

GSBI Accelerator program: Shucking the Husk

It turned out to be both a blessing and a challenge to have a good reputation coming in to the GSBI® Accelerator program at Santa Clara University…

Year: 2012

Husk Power Systems raises $5M in Series A funding

Husk Power Systems raises $5M in Series A equity funding led by existing investors Acumen Fund and Bamboo Finance in Oct 2012..

Year: 2011

Husk Power Systems Wants to Lead “a Revolution in Electricity”

With a simple but effective design that transforms rice husks into power, the Indian for-profit social enterprise is expanding at a rate of two plants per week…

A Light in India

Husk Power Systems has 65 power units that serve a total of 30,000 households and is currently installing new systems at the rate of two to three per week…

Husk Power Dominates Venture Capital Comp.

Awarded First Prize of US $250,000 in Draper Fisher Jurvetson – CISCO Global Business Plan Competition, 2009..

Rice Husks Follow Solar to Power Indian Towns Off Utility Grid

Rice husks and solar energy funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco Systems Inc. are replacing kerosene and diesel as the fuel to power India’s rural villages…

Husk Power lights rural India

It’s rare to find electric lights along the Indian countryside. But a startup called Husk Power Systems is trying to change that…

Year: 2009

Husk Power in Good Magazine

Peeled-off, tossed aside, and forgotten, the rice husk may be the world’s most ubiquitous-and forsaken-form of agricultural waste..

Year: 2008

Husk Power Systems – Rice Fired Electricity

University of Virginia business students Chip Ransler and Manoj Sinha recently devised a way to give them their own form of energy independence..

Named FASTCOMPANY Top-10 Social Enterprise of the Year , 2009

Nine bold and timely ideas that wow us and that have earned these organizations a place alongside Enterprise Community Partners..

Husk Power for India in New York Times

Growing up in rural Bihar State, Manoj Sinha knew what it was like to sit in the dark. So after earning an electrical engineering degree..