#solar

🇨🇭 Switzerland · ADEV Energiegenossenschaft

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

🇮🇳 India · Barefoot College International

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

🇱🇸 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.

🇭🇷 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.

🇧🇪 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.

🇩🇪 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.

🇰🇪 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.

🇳🇮 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.

🇹🇬 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.

🇮🇳 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.

🇬🇧 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.

🇪🇨 Ecuador · Fundación Kara Solar

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

🇩🇲 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.

🇲🇷 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.

🌍 Global · Solar Sister

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

🌍 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.

🌍 Global · SolarAid

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

🇪🇸 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.

🇦🇹 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.