Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realis...

The sun is sacred in India - and almost always to be seen. The conditions for the use of solar Energy are ideal in a country whose Southern regions boasts some 3,000 hours of sunshine a year. In the i...

Recently, three students specializing in technology and sustainable development cycled all over Auroville surveying buildings and talking to their inhabitants. Their aim? To find out if Auroville’s ...

Renewable energy technologies are generally very expensive, especially solar energy technologies. As you cannot expect somebody to pay their electricity bill for the next 25 years in one shot, the Ind...

Carsten, a 40 year old German electronic engineer started Auroville Energy Products in 1996. One of the first projects was a micro-hydroelectricity system in Putsil, Orissa. More systems followed. Aur...

In the renewable energy field, the Aurovilians have been very active to implement different technologies, first in Auroville and nowadays, more and more outside. This unique experience, through its...

Aurore is promoting renewable energy applications within and outside Auroville. Auroville is seen as the perfect testing ground for some of those applications, once an application has been proven to w...

Auroville's Centre for Scientific Research CSR is promoting renewable energies by hosting national conferences and giving courses on how to realize moving towards sustainability. These trainings are e...

  Sagar Island is one of the largest islands in the Sunderban delta of the Bay of Bengal, about 150 km South of Calcutta. Like its neighbours, it has no connection to grid power supply. The inhabit...