: India’s clean energy startups are bringing new innovations to farms and rural households #IndiaNEWS Yash Tarwadi, 25, is a chemical engineer based in Surat in Gujarat. Four years ago, he along with

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Yash Tarwadi, 25, is a chemical engineer based in Surat in Gujarat. Four years ago, he along with three other like-minded engineers came together to develop a solar energy-based desalination plant that could be used to convert seawater into potable water, which could grow into a model for improving drinking water access in coastal states like Gujarat.Like Tarwadi’s enterprise, Solnce Technologies, many startup companies across India have ventured into the clean energy sector, developing innovations for the agricultural sector and rural households.Solnce Technologies introduced its desalination plant, Sol-Evo, in 2018. It also started a pilot project and installed its standalone unit at Olpad, a coastal village, around 30 kilometres away from Surat, a city about 300 km away from the state’s capital Gandhinagar. “In Olpad, people used to bring water tankers to get drinking water,� Tarwadi told Mongabay-India. “Their underground water was highly saline with TDS [Total Dissolved Solids] reaching around 800 mg/l. This is the reality of several rural and urban areas like Chennai, where despite a huge source of seawater, the people there are forced to buy water or depend on the government for the same.�“One option is to use the conventional sources of electricity derived from polluting sources of energy like coal,� he added....Read more

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