Twenty-two-year-old Yashraj Khaitan finds it difficult to explain to his parents what exactly he is doing in a remote village in Rajasthan.

One year ago, as a fresh graduate from the University of California, Berkeley, Khaitan turned down a job offer from Ericsson, the world’s largest maker of wireless network equipment, to start his own company.

Gram Power, the venture he founded along with a batchmate Jacob Dickinson, enables villagers to produce and store renewable energy. It helps them integrate and generate energy out of biomass, solar or wind on-site.

via Gram Power: Yashraj Khaitan’s ‘smart microgrid’ produces, stores renewable energy on location – The Economic Times.

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