About: Gram Power

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Gram Power is an energy technology company founded in 2010 out of University of California Berkeley. The company provides cutting-edge Smart Grid technologies to address the electrification challenges in developing nations. Its founders are Yashraj Khaitan (an Indian), and Jacob Dickinson (an American), engineering graduates of the University of California, Berkeley, who are being mentored by Eric Brewer, a vice-president of infrastructure at Google and a professor at Berkeley. They set up India's first Solar Powered Smart Microgrid in the Rajasthan hamlet of Khareda Lakshmipura in March 2012, providing energy for lights, buttermilk machines, televisions, and fans. Gram Power's core innovation is in their Smart Distribution technology, consisting of their Smart Meters and Grid Monitoring S

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  • Gram Power is an energy technology company founded in 2010 out of University of California Berkeley. The company provides cutting-edge Smart Grid technologies to address the electrification challenges in developing nations. Its founders are Yashraj Khaitan (an Indian), and Jacob Dickinson (an American), engineering graduates of the University of California, Berkeley, who are being mentored by Eric Brewer, a vice-president of infrastructure at Google and a professor at Berkeley. They set up India's first Solar Powered Smart Microgrid in the Rajasthan hamlet of Khareda Lakshmipura in March 2012, providing energy for lights, buttermilk machines, televisions, and fans. Gram Power's core innovation is in their Smart Distribution technology, consisting of their Smart Meters and Grid Monitoring Systems to provide on-demand, theft-proof power with a unique pay-as-you-use schedule that is determined by the end user. The company's operation has been praised by American journalist Thomas Friedman as "the most exciting" energy technology innovation he has seen in India and was selected among the top 10 Cleantech Innovations by NASA in 2011. Gram Power is reportedly "on pace to reach 20,000 homes and have 100 rural telecom towers covered with solar panels for a generation" for 2013. (en)
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  • Gram Power is an energy technology company founded in 2010 out of University of California Berkeley. The company provides cutting-edge Smart Grid technologies to address the electrification challenges in developing nations. Its founders are Yashraj Khaitan (an Indian), and Jacob Dickinson (an American), engineering graduates of the University of California, Berkeley, who are being mentored by Eric Brewer, a vice-president of infrastructure at Google and a professor at Berkeley. They set up India's first Solar Powered Smart Microgrid in the Rajasthan hamlet of Khareda Lakshmipura in March 2012, providing energy for lights, buttermilk machines, televisions, and fans. Gram Power's core innovation is in their Smart Distribution technology, consisting of their Smart Meters and Grid Monitoring S (en)
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