{"id":9409,"date":"2024-07-11T21:23:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=9409"},"modified":"2024-07-11T21:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:53:28","slug":"summit-friendship-solar-village-wins-reuters-global-energy-transition-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=9409","title":{"rendered":"Summit-Friendship Solar Village wins Reuters&#8217; Global Energy Transition Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline_content_block post_template-0\">\n<div class=\"headline_section mb-2\">\n<h4 class=\"font-weight-bold\">World desk:<br \/>\nThe &#8216;Summit-Friendship Solar Village&#8217; project, located in Gaibandha, has received the Reuters&#8217; Global Energy Transition Awards 2024 under the &#8216;Projects of Impact&#8217; category in New York, the USA on June 25.This 57.6 kW scalable solar microgrid now benefits 3,000 people from Kabilpur of Gaibandha and acts as a hub for other neighboring islands (Chars) in the river Brahmaputra, said a release today.Summit wants to serve 100 percent of Bangladesh with infrastructures such as electricity and communication, chairman of Summit Power International Muhammed Aziz Khan said.&#8221;Anyone who has seen the mighty Jamuna river will understand that mainline power grids are not really possible here,&#8221; said Runa Khan, founder of Friendship.&#8221;This solar grid will provide income-generating opportunities and livelihoods, as well as opportunities for children&#8217;s education,&#8221; Runa added.Additionally, renewable solar energy also means less reliance on traditional fossil-fuel burning kerosene lamps, which give off toxic emissions and also present a fire hazard.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World desk: The &#8216;Summit-Friendship Solar Village&#8217; project, located in Gaibandha, has received the Reuters&#8217; Global Energy Transition Awards 2024 under the &#8216;Projects of Impact&#8217; category in New York, the USA on June 25.This 57.6 kW scalable solar microgrid now benefits 3,000 people from Kabilpur of Gaibandha and acts as a hub for other neighboring islands (Chars) in the river Brahmaputra, said a release today.Summit wants to serve 100 percent of Bangladesh with infrastructures such as electricity and communication, chairman of Summit Power International Muhammed Aziz Khan said.&#8221;Anyone who has seen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_5980380192037842_108390337697511":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9412,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions\/9412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}