{"id":19137,"date":"2011-02-17T18:38:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T01:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=19137"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:10:25","slug":"onergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/onergy\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable Energy For India&#8217;s Rural Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27317375\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>On an otherwise reasonable evening, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium in Boulder, Colorado, for the culmination of the 2011\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unreasonable Institute<\/a>. They came to see <a href=\"https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/category\/program\/institute\/2011_institute\/\" target=\"_blank\">27 ventures<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0present their solutions to some of the world\u2019s greatest challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Piyush Jaju, Finance Director at ONergy shares how his venture is building an eco-system providing\u00a0renewable energy solutions to the rural poor in India.\u00a0<a title=\"ONergy Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onergy.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">ONergy<\/a> aims to provide complete energy solutions to the rural poor \u2013 across lighting, cooking and electrification. ONergy is creating a last mile distribution and service network for clean technologies. 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