SPREADING SUNSHINE

MERA GAOPOWER, 2010 UTTAR PRADESH

- M.G. Arun

Having had a long stint in the power industry, working with clean-tech and high-tech companies, Sunit Arya, chairman of Mera Gao Power (MGP), says, “I decided to engage in something that would impact life in India’s villages.” MGP was founded in 2010 by Nikhil Jaisinghani, Brian Michael Shaad and Sandeep Pandey with a simple idea—use solar power to light up villages in the backward districts of UP at a cost lower than the price of kerosene used to light lamps. For households that have no access to electricity grids, the company’s SolarHome proje