free Spirits Green Labs (P) Ltd. FREEDOM TO INNOVATE

WHO WE ARE

• We are a group of budding engineers who aim to lighten each and every rustic home with light. We have a vision to make the rural India go SOLAR, with the ever increasing demand in power by the cities and the villages being neglected.

• ‘SPIRIT’- Solar Power Initiative for Rural India Team is an initiative to a greener world with an additional aim to conserve the conventional sources of energy

• Powering homes is not the only motive, but empowering people with skills and knowledge to operate integrates our vision.

PROJECTS COMPLETED SO FAR

Solar Power Initiative for Rural India Team (SPIRIT) Pilot Project in Bhajju (Shamli district), and Kamheda Tughlakpur (Muzzafarnagar district) Villages, Uttar Pradesh, India

• A team of students from Delhi Technological University (DTU) and ‘free Spirits’ worked together under the guidance of DTU Honorary Professor, Dr. Kumar Krishen, to provide small solar powered setups for ten families free of cost.

• The hardware requirements for this project worth Rs. 30,000 are funded by Prof. Krishen through Krishen Foundation.

• The up gradation cost of the systems was Rs. 15,000 and was funded by free Spirits

Project Rashmi

• On surveying Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, we found that the people pay Rs. 5 every alternate day to charge their mobile phones.

• The monthly cost of charging their mobile phones approximates around Rs. 100 – 120

• To address this issue, we came up with Project RASHMI, which aims to provide solar mobile phone chargers to the villagers.

• With every villager having their own personal chargers, the monthly expenditure would drop to Rs.19 for mobile phone charging.

Electrification of a charitable school, Dodaballapura, Bangalore

• A small charitable school working

hard to aware the rural families about

the importance of education has more

than 200 students from around 60

villages now.

• We met with the principle to discuss

about the development of this area.

We have installed a small solar

powered light setup in that school that

can be used to power 3 - 4 LED lights

during the night time.

• Also, we’ve distributed some solar

powered mobile phone chargers in the

villages for free.

Working with TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) to help provide electricity in villages in Maharashtra

• We had talked to the TISS (TATA Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljapur, Maharashtra) about the initiative and also gave them a brief description about the different products that we have developed.

• The idea is to showcase the application (giving a demo) to the villagers in the fest.

• After surveying the villages, we provided mobile chargers and a small solar set up in the nearby village to know about the response of the people and got a positive feedback.

The projects were survey based projects that we regularly do in order to improve our products. We take feedback from people and include the drawbacks in the next enhancement.

WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER THIS SECTION DESCRIBES OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT WE’VE DEVELOPED SPECIFIC TO VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. IT WILL ALSO THROW SOME LIGHT UPON THE PROJECTS THAT WE UNDERTAKE FOR RURAL AS WELL AS URBAN DEVELOPMENT

PRODUCTS

• Solar mobile phone chargers

• Solar lanterns

• Motor bike chargers

• Solar street lights

• Solar home lighting systems

• Solar LED Lights

• Solar DC fans

• Solar battery charging system

…and many other products

SERVICES

• Solar technical trainings

• Solar workshop in schools and colleges

• Roof top solar installations

• Consultation

PROJECTS

• Solar school/community centre

• Solar labs (in colleges)

• CSR projects

• Solar power well

• Irrigation systems

OUR TEAM

NITIN SAINI ANUJ PAL

OUR TEAM

MANISH BHANDARI NEHA JAWALE

Prof. Kumar Krishen

Chief Scientist, free Spirits Green Labs (P) Ltd.

Senior Scientist, Houston Space Center, NASA

Some words from Prof. Kumar Krishen

The objective of our efforts is to develop unique & highly efficient innovative designs for numerous applications and engage a manufacturing company for mass production for entire India. We have chosen a two pronged approach to identify these designs for production. We develop prototypes and deploy these to needy families free to get feedback regarding the satisfaction of their need. With this genuine feedback we are modifying the prototype design to get to the final production design.

We are unconditionally dedicated to the cause of making wide spread use of solar power in India economically viable. That is our challenge and that is our Karma!