1. Renewable Energy for the
Bottom of the Pyramid
Team Name: Change Ahead
Team Leader: Chanakya Hridaya
Team Members: Apurva Jain, Chanakya Hridaya
Country: India
Institution: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),
Kharagpur, India

2. Our world today is facing an enormous energy crisis…
20% of the world's
population is still without access
to electricity, almost all of whom
live in developing countries.1
2088 - we will run out of all
fossil fuels – oil, gas & coal. 2
1. Source: World Bank
2. Source: Ecotricity, UK

3. My Dream Job - tackling this crisis through sustainable
renewable energy solutions...
Analyse & identify the feasibility & applicability of
Identify different renewable energy technologies in
unelectrified parts of the developing world
Employ unskilled and semi-skilled local people to set
Build up the energy plants, and train them for
maintenance & operation of these plants
Use cloud-based, real-time monitoring systems to
Operate efficiently manage the entire network of
decentralised power plants across the region
Collaborate with Financial Institutions for provision
Finance of loans to villagers for developing micro-businesses
through the use of electricity
Flow of knowledge and expertise through virtual
Connect networks by connecting professionals, researchers &
technologists across geographies

4. Using innovative & environment-friendly technologies in
different parts of the developing world…
Biomass and rice husk power plants
established in the small villages of Windmill farms constructed
South-east Asia in the hilly, windy areas of
northern Asia
Harnessing tidal and ocean
current energy on the coasts
of South America
Solar energy farms spread
out all across the equatorial
lands of Africa

5. Let me take you through a day at my job…
Go to the new solar farm with team.
Set up monitoring devices for solar Have lunch with local employees
panels that have just arrived. to discuss and fix their
maintenance training schedules.
Reach office. Read daily operation
reports of our renewable energy Receive alert of an operational
plants in the local area. glitch in our biomass energy plant.
Rush there to restore the systems.
Meet executives of a Co-operative
Wake up! An exciting day Bank to negotiate terms for
of work lies ahead! provision of micro loans to villagers
Return to the office for a video
conference session with wind-
power researchers from the US,
Japan and Germany
Dream of the whole world lit
up by renewable energy!
End the day with a team
discussion regarding our
future expansion plans
Have a good night’s sleep!

6. And, this is the impact created through our work & vision…
2034
Led a project
2022 on a solar +
Started wind energy
working on my 2030 hybrid
first solar Increased
technology in
power plant in employment
Africa
2026 rates by 20% in
China
Increased the focus areas 2038
share of Electrified
renewable 5000 districts
energy in in over 25
world power countries
supply by 2% across the
world
2024
Helped bring 2036
electricity to 3 Trained 500+
backward 2032 workers on
maintenance &
districts in Reduced potential
Somalia operation of
carbon emissions
solar & windmill
2028 through power
farms. These 2040
Conducted 20 generation by 5% Increased
workers now
workshops in operate 20 average
rural areas on the plants incomes of the
Personal Milestones use of electricity independently working areas
to generate micro by 50%
Company Milestones businesses

7. The competencies developed through my education, enabling
me to be successful at my job, combine all of these aspects…
SKILL KNOWLEDGE
Innovation Imagination Energy Engineering
Curiosity Technology Evaluation
Problem-solving
Determination Environmental Assessment
Communication Micro-business Development
Analysis
Teamwork
Welfare Economics
Perseverance EXPERIENCE
Field Trips Internships
Research Projects
Conferences
Case Studies
Grassroots Exposure

8. The “Classroom of the Future” works on the principle of the
3 C’s, to give a strong theoretical foundation along with
exposure to real world problems…
Create
EDUCATION
Connect Collaborate

9. This is how the holistic educational process begins…
Create diverse knowledge encompassing Collaborate with researchers &
technological and social aspects students across the world to exchange ideas
Real and
Virtual Classrooms virtual
and Online Learning
– connecting
discussion
students and forums
teachers across the
world
Problem-
oriented
team
projects
Case studies and
State-of- the-art
research strategy building
laboratories that exercises
allow students to
fully embrace
technology

10. And once the last piece of the puzzle falls into place, we are
ready to create real changes in the world…
Connect to the real-world challenges and witness future technologies, and let the
people around you educate you
Internships Local Projects
• Hands-on experience in • Problem-solving projects in
energy challenges at the nearby regions to get a real
grassroots level with taste of dealing with social
companies involved in the and cultural entry barriers.
renewable energy sector. • Problems can be irrigational
• Selco in India, Desertec in issues with farmers, lack of
Africa are excellent examples drinking water, inefficiencies
of companies providing in micro businesses, among
sustainable energy others.
Field Trips Conferences & Summits
• University-organised trips to • Exchange of ideas and
understand functioning of meeting like-minded people
renewable energy plants and through conferences and
distribution channels. summits on renewable
• Endeavors such as Tata energy, social challenges,
Jagriti Yatra in India that micro enterprise
introduce the youth to development, etc.
grassroots innovations and • Exposure to upcoming
entrepreneurial activities. trends and technologies.