In the summer of 2014, my team and I finished the installation of stand-alone solar panels in three
hundred households in the remote village of Sirohi, Haryana (India).
We conducted Energy Audits and
after assessment of the daily requirement sized solar panels & battery which were then installed over a
span of six month. Project Sirohi helped reduce the community’s dependency on the unreliable
distribution networks and become more self-sufficient. The project, done in partnership with Skilled
Samaritan Foundation, Engineers Without Borders & BechTel, had a significant impact on me as it
showed me the virtues of my education and allowed me to apply my theoretically learned knowledge for
practical purposes. It also roused my interest in the energy sector as it gave me a glimpse of the future
with renewables at the forefront and made me delve deeper in this area.
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