#solar

🇮🇩 Indonesia · Masjid Al-Muharram Brajan

After blackouts sometimes silenced the call to prayer, a village mosque near Yogyakarta raised tens of millions of rupiah in 'energy alms' from thousands of small donors and switched to the sun.

🇳🇬 Nigeria · ColdHubs

A tomato farmer with no refrigeration has about two days to sell everything. A solar cold room at the market turns that into twenty-one, for fifty cents a crate a day.

🇯🇵 Japan · TERA Energy

Customers of a power retailer founded by Buddhist priests in 2018 pay nothing extra, yet up to 2.5% of every bill goes to a local group they choose, and a 100% renewable plan is on offer.

🇵🇷 Puerto Rico · Casa Pueblo

After Hurricane Maria, an Adjuntas community group made its solar-powered building an 'energy oasis' for dialysis machines and medicine fridges, then built a community-owned microgrid for the town.

🇻🇺 Vanuatu · Respond Global

A converted 32-metre ship, HELPR-1, sails to Vanuatu's outer islands to install off-grid solar at health centres that never had reliable power.

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea · Kokoda Track Foundation

At Kokoda College, reachable only by air or on foot, a solar mini-grid now runs a new IT lab, lights the classrooms and dorms, and even powers the campus aid post, and a second mini-grid is planned for a clinic that serves 7,000 patients a year.

🇨🇭 Switzerland · ADEV Energiegenossenschaft

Switzerland's oldest citizen energy cooperative lets ordinary members co-own the solar, wind and hydro plants powering their neighborhoods.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Projeto Saúde & Alegria

A Santarém nonprofit has put solar-powered water pumps into about 30 Tapajós river communities, and trains Indigenous 'Eletricistas do Sol' to keep them running.

🇸🇴 Somalia · BECO

Somalia has some of the most expensive electricity on earth, all of it from diesel — until a Mogadishu utility started building solar instead.

🇮🇳 India · Barefoot College International

Rural grandmothers from dozens of countries train in Tilonia, Rajasthan to become 'Solar Mamas' who electrify their own villages.

🇬🇹 Guatemala · Asociación Campesina Río Negro Trece de Marzo Maya Achí

Descendants of families displaced by the Chixoy dam are installing 20 solar water pumps so farmers can irrigate heirloom vegetables, including the revived Maravilla tomato.

🇱🇸 Lesotho · African Clean Energy

A clean-cooking company founded in Lesotho distributes solar-biomass hybrid cookstoves that cut smoke and fuel use while charging phones and powering lights for rural households.

🇧🇧 Barbados · CloudSolar

Barbadians can buy a share of a solar panel online and earn credits as it feeds clean power into the island's grid, opening solar investment to households who can't install rooftop systems themselves.

🇮🇳 India · Gram Oorja Solutions

An Indian solar micro-grid developer builds decentralized, community-owned power plants that bring round-the-clock electricity to villages beyond the national grid.

🇦🇺 Australia · Cricket for Climate

Founded by Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins, this player-led charity fits community cricket clubs with rooftop solar so the game can run on clean energy instead of rising power bills.

🇭🇷 Croatia · Zelena energetska zadruga (ZEZ / Green Energy Cooperative)

ZEZ turns Croatian rooftops into citizen-owned power plants, letting neighbors crowd-invest in solar panels and keep the clean-energy profits in their own towns.

🇨🇴 Colombia · Fundación Iguaraya

On Colombia's Caribbean coast, 27 Afro-descendant and Indigenous fruit-growing families are each getting a solar irrigation system, and their pulp plant is going solar too.

🇧🇪 Belgium · Ecopower cvba

Belgium's oldest energy cooperative lets more than 70,000 citizens co-own the wind turbines and solar panels that power their homes.

🇹🇩 Chad · FairClimateFund

Dutch climate NGO FairClimateFund and local partner ADES supply women-assembled solar cookers to Sudanese refugee camps in eastern Chad, cutting firewood collection and CO2 emissions.

🇩🇪 Germany · Neue Energien Forum Feldheim

A Brandenburg village of about 130 residents has run entirely on its own wind, solar and biogas power since 2010.

🇭🇹 Haiti · EarthSpark International

A Haiti-focused nonprofit builds solar-powered microgrids that bring 24/7 metered electricity — and a feminist approach to energy access — to rural towns cut off from the national grid.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Forest Green Rovers FC

An English football club runs its stadium on solar power, feeds fans a vegan menu and became the world's first UN-certified carbon-neutral sports team.

🇬🇭 Ghana · Dream Renewables

At Jantuakrom, nurses who once delivered babies by torchlight now run a vaccine fridge on a 3.6 kW rooftop array that four local trainees helped install and still maintain.

🇰🇪 Kenya · GivePower

Solar-powered desalination in shipping containers turns seawater into affordable drinking water for coastal Kenya.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Grameen Shakti

The organization that put solar power on nearly two million rural rooftops across Bangladesh.

🇸🇮 Slovenia · Focus Association for Sustainable Development (Focus, društvo za sonaraven razvoj)

Focus helped the former coal town of Hrastnik build Slovenia's first cooperative rooftop-solar community, turning ordinary households and shops into an energy-self-sufficient neighborhood.

🇨🇿 Czechia · Hnutí DUHA (Friends of the Earth Czech Republic)

A Czech environmental NGO turned energy customers into energy owners, switching on the country's first true citizen-owned solar power plant.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Rwanga Foundation

The Erbil-based Rwanga Foundation took Kulak village off the grid with nearly 200 solar panels, and has since taken five Kurdistan villages completely off the grid.

🇱🇾 Libya · Infinity Power

Africa's largest oil reserves sit under Libya, and its first solar plant was built in a Saharan oasis 1,000km from the coast.

🇳🇮 Nicaragua · blueEnergy

Since 2004, this off-grid engineering nonprofit has been wiring solar power and clean water into isolated Caribbean-coast Nicaraguan communities.

🌍 Global · M-KOPA

Pay-as-you-go fintech providing solar power, smartphones and e-motorbikes on affordable credit to underbanked Africans.

🇲🇬 Madagascar · Masontsika

Masontsika's Bazary model lets villagers rent solar lamps, charge phones and chill food at a health centre, and that income pays for the clinic's own power to run free.

🇲🇱 Mali · Mali-Folkecenter Nyetaa

A Bamako NGO founded in 1999 says it has set up 17,000 solar panels in Malian schools, maternity clinics and emergency rooms, and now funds solar-pumped market gardens run largely by women.

🇹🇬 Togo · Mivo Énergie

A Togolese social enterprise sells solar lamps and clean cookstoves on flexible credit so families can quit costly, smoky kerosene and charcoal.

🇺🇸 United States · Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore

Baltimore's googly-eyed, solar-and-water-powered trash-eating wheel that keeps the harbor clean.

🇸🇸 South Sudan · Energy Peace Partners

Renewable energy certificates normally reward the cheapest possible megawatt; these ones only count if they are generated somewhere at war.

🇮🇳 India · SELCO Foundation

SELCO Foundation designs solar-powered solutions for low-income Indian households, clinics, and small businesses to improve livelihoods.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh · SOLshare

SOLshare wires neighboring solar home systems into smart micro-grids so households can sell their spare sunshine to the family next door over mobile money.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Sahara Forest Project

Norwegian-designed facility in Jordan's desert growing vegetables using seawater-cooled greenhouses and concentrated solar power.

🇸🇻 El Salvador · CoCoDA

In El Zapote, Suchitoto, 96 solar panels now run the community well system that supplies more than 2,500 families.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust (Eigg Electric)

Since 2008, the roughly 100 residents of Scotland's Isle of Eigg have collectively owned and run the world's first off-grid community electricity network powered by hydro, wind, and solar.

🇵🇰 Pakistan · Rural Aid Pakistan

In Punjab's Narowal District, seven solar-powered irrigation systems let farming households ditch diesel, save water and diversify their crops, and 1,280 women were trained alongside.

🇪🇨 Ecuador · Fundación Kara Solar

Indigenous Achuar communities in Ecuador's Amazon build and pilot solar-powered river canoes that replace gasoline outboard motors.

🇧🇯 Benin · Solar Electric Light Fund

You can ship all the vaccines you like to a clinic with no electricity; without a fridge that works, none of them survive the journey.

🇩🇲 Dominica · Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)

Two Dominican primary schools flattened by Hurricane Maria now run on solar-and-battery microgrids that double as hurricane shelters.

🇮🇳 India · Husk Power Systems

The world's largest operator of community solar mini-grids delivers round-the-clock renewable power to rural villages and small businesses across India and Nigeria that the national grid has never reached.

🇳🇬 Nigeria · PowerGen Renewable Energy

A Kenya-headquartered mini-grid developer builds and operates solar-powered mini-grids that bring first-time electricity access to rural Nigerian households and businesses.

🇨🇲 Cameroon · Renewable Energy Innovators Cameroon (REI-Cameroon)

Solar minigrids are bringing round-the-clock power to off-grid Cameroonian villages that the national electricity grid has never reached.

🇵🇭 Philippines · Diocese of Calapan

Oriental Mindoro's church launched a renewable energy plan in December 2025 and by September 2026 had solar running at 19 of its 43 parishes and facilities, ahead of schedule.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Anera

Anera put 219 solar panels and 24 lithium batteries on 14 struggling community and health centers in Lebanon, cutting their average monthly electricity bill by 46%.

🇲🇷 Mauritania · Gret

Gret's multifunctional solar platforms bring electricity, mills and clean water to Mauritanian villages too remote or small for the national grid.

🇳🇵 Nepal · SunFarmer

A nonprofit solar finance organization installs solar power for hospitals, clinics, schools, and farms across rural Nepal, replacing unreliable grid power and diesel.

🇺🇸 United States · Native Renewables

An Indigenous-led nonprofit installs off-grid solar and battery systems for Navajo and Hopi families still living without electricity.

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Pteah Baitong

Pteah Baitong sells irrigation as a service, so Cambodian rice farmers share a solar pumping station instead of buying diesel pumps, and a Kampong Thom community now grows two rice crops a year.

🌍 Global · Solar Sister

A women-led network of clean-energy entrepreneurs bringing solar lights and clean cookstoves to off-grid Africa.

🇲🇿 Mozambique · Alongside Hope

At Muripotana Health Centre in Nampula, a midwife who once began every night shift in darkness and could not admit patients now has lights, a fetal Doppler and phone charging from a wall-mounted solar box.

🌍 Global · We Care Solar

A Berkeley nonprofit equips last-mile health clinics with rugged 'Solar Suitcase' kits, giving midwives reliable light and power to safely deliver babies after dark.

🇵🇸 Palestine · Comet-ME (Community, Energy and Technology in the Middle East)

An Israeli-Palestinian NGO builds solar-and-wind hybrid mini-grids and water systems for herding communities in the South Hebron Hills who are barred from connecting to the electric grid.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha

A fleet of solar-powered boats turns into classrooms, libraries and clinics for children in Bangladesh's flood-prone river districts.

🇩🇯 Djibouti · Impact Water Solutions

A solar-powered, battery-free desalination unit on Lake Ghoubet delivers free drinking water to a Djiboutian community that had none.

🇰🇪 Kenya · SunCulture

A Kenyan climate-tech company sells pay-as-you-go solar irrigation pumps that let smallholder farmers grow food year-round without diesel fuel or grid power.

🇹🇩 Chad · Water4Chad

Chadian drilling teams are sinking solar-powered wells across the country's driest regions, freeing communities from hours-long walks to contaminated water.

🇭🇳 Honduras · MOPAWI (Moskitia Pawisa)

A Miskito-led NGO is building solar-powered wells and storage tanks in Yamanta and Kruta, where families now drink from contaminated hand-dug pits.

🌍 Global · SolarAid

A UK charity replacing dangerous kerosene lamps with clean solar lights across rural Africa.

🇲🇼 Malawi · SolarAid

Rather than lighting scattered households, SolarAid tried lighting one entire Malawian village at once — and reached 99% of it.

🇪🇸 Spain · Som Energia

A member-owned cooperative founded in Catalonia in 2010 supplies 100% renewable electricity and lets people co-invest in solar and wind.

🇹🇿 Tanzania · ELICO Foundation (Energy and Livelihoods for Communities)

A Dar es Salaam non-profit has put solar power into rural health facilities serving more than 584,000 patients, so ultrasound machines, lab kit and vaccine fridges stop going dark.

🇦🇫 Afghanistan · UN Women Afghanistan

Thirty-five women run businesses in a Bamyan market that the grid never reached — so the roof became the power station.

🇹🇰 Tokelau · Government of Tokelau

Three atolls, 1,500 people, no grid to connect to — so Tokelau became the first place on earth to run entirely on the sun.

🇾🇪 Yemen · UNDP Yemen

Ten women in Abs district built and now run the first private solar grid in a country where the war took the power out years ago.

🇦🇹 Austria · illwerke vkw AG

Vorarlberg's state-owned utility runs an Alpine hydropower fleet that keeps the region's electricity fully renewable, and is building Austria's largest pumped-storage plant to help balance Europe's grid.