Malavalli crop waste power plant
What is it?
The world’s first project to be certified by both the United Nations and the Gold Standard, Malavalli is a rural power plant generating clean energy from local farmers’ crop waste. Sounds simple, but its effect is impressive.
What are the benefits?
10,000 people in 47 local villages used to have electricity for just three hours a day. Thanks to the project, they now have it for 18 – a major rise in living standards. CO2 emissions saved by the project: 20,000 tonnes a year.
What else do we like about it?
Where to begin? It created 500 jobs, sales of previously worthless crop waste now adds about US $1m annually to the local economy and the plant’s waste, in turn, is recycled as ecologically friendly organic fertiliser.
