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The sustainability of energy access projects and their reliability at scale has been a key issue for corporations, foundations, social organizations and governments wishing to create a meaningful impact in remote communities.
Gram Oorja is a trusted energy access provider with 1,100+ community-scale projects across India, impacting over 150,000 people providing them with access to clean and reliable energy for their essential and productive needs.
Besides working in remote areas with its energy access offerings, Gram Oorja also helps companies transition to renewable energy.
Remote villages rely on conventional power networks, but difficult terrain, long distances, and high costs make access unreliable. Centralized structures often fail these last-mile areas, compromising supply quality or energy access entirely.
Gram Oorja’s decentralized solutions like solar water pumps, microgrids, and biogas cooking grids at the last mile villages bypass these challenges. These sustainable initiatives empower remote regions, ensuring reliable and environmentally friendly energy access.
Energy access projects are those projects where the availability of renewable energy enables communities or institutions to do something they were earlier not able to do.
Energy transition projects are those projects where companies want to move away from conventional energy and include a larger mix of renewable energy in their usage.
Solar Micro
Grids
Solar Water
Pumps
Biogas Based
Cooking Projects
Institution Level
Energy Systems
These solutions emerged out of an innovative approach to addressing grass-root problems. They result in
better living standards through impact on education, health, environment, livelihood generation, women
empowerment, communication and entertainment.
Energy is only an enabler. At Gram Oorja, we measure impact in terms of improvement in an individual’s daily life across social, economic and environmental dimensions.
Deep community interaction through social organizations
Tailor-made solutions
To increase involvement
To ensure sustainability and discipline
Determined by ability to pay
Preferably to communities
We at TRIF enormously respect our partnership with Gram Oorja for working with rural communities in providing energy access for productive and consumptive purposes. Though we engage many vendors for supply of hardware and services, we haven’t experienced any other organization so sensitive and responsive towards community needs, professionally experienced and deeply engaged in such remote villages.
Previously, we only practised farming during the monsoons, resulting in low yields. To make ends meet, we had to migrate to cities for labour, where the pay was minimal—around $1.5 to $2.5 per day for our family of 8. After the group-irrigation systems, we now cultivate groundnut and earn an additional $600 to $700 during the Rabi season alone from its sale. Additionally, we now grow okra, pumpkins, and beans for our consumption and earn extra income by selling the surplus.
We requested Gram Oorja to solar electrify eleven rural primary health centres in Nandurbar District of Maharashtra State and a 500 kWp solar plant for a milk processing project, in Osmanabad Dist. (Maharashtra State). Given the challenging nature of work in rural areas, Gram Oorja’s ability to commission projects successfully and in a time bound manner has been exemplary.
Gram Oorja provided a well-organized and insightful tour of their community-owned mini-grids. We were impressed by the innovative technology and the skills imparted to communities for managing socio-economic and technical challenges. The long-term success and positive feedback from communities highlight the sustainability of these grids. Viva Gram Oorja!
