Vellore Institute of Technology team electrifies houses in rural Karnataka

Sixtyfive houses in Alambadi village did not have any power supply for the past 75 years.

The School of Electrical Engineering in the Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, has electrified, using solar energy, 65 houses in Alambadi village in rural Karnataka which did not have any power supply for the past 75 years. The professors and students of the Solar Energy Research Cell (SERC), School of Electrical Engineering, VIT, did this under a project Intelligent Off-Grid System for energy sustainable village — sanctioned by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the banner, Mission Innovation Challenge-Off Grid Energy Access. The team carried this out in association with consortium partners, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Roma Tre University, Italy, and Indian institutes such as the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Rural Energy and Development, Trust for Rejuvenation of Environment and Nature Development, and Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Karnataka.