Oorja Solutions
Works towards designing and installing mini-grids powered by solar energy to ensure continuous supply of electricity for farmers and small businesses
About
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Headquarters
New Delhi, Delhi
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Since
2016
Oorja is a Farming as a Service company that bridges agriculture and clean energy. It offers irrigation, milling, and cooling services to smallholder Read morefarmers through a convenient pay-per-use model. It installs solar-powered mini-grids to generate electricity to appliances for businesses, agriculture and communities of rural India. Usage of solar PV mini-grids provides energy to appliances that are used in agriculture and manufacturing sectors. Solar energy and biomass such as crop waste are used as resources to produce energy for communities in India that are not on the national energy grid. Providing uninterrupted electricity in order to enable small businesses and farmers to save money on diesel and increasing productivity by using appliances that are energy-efficient. All the projects aim to integrate women from being technicians to customer service agents. Oorja believes that each aspect of rural electrification requires livelihood opportunities for women, that in turn helps in increasing the income that they can spend on children’s education and family’s health. Oorja’s mission is to provide clean and affordable energy access to the 450 million people without access to dependable electricity in rural India. It expects to save 200 tons of CO2 annually for each mini-grid installed by eliminating diesel and kerosene fuel consumption. The ultimate aim is to promote gender equality and empower women, ensure environmental sustainability and undertake rural development projects.
Cause Area
Sub Sector
Programs
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Oonnati
The organisation provides irrigation as a service directly on your farm, charging on a per-litre basis. It installs the community solar powered pump in a cluster model, maintains it, and employs local people to deploy the service. Conventionally, the farmer makes the initial investment of setting up a diesel-based pump, sources fuel to run the pump, and bears the added cost of maintaining the pump. With Oorja’s low-carbon solar-powered irrigation solution, the farmer pays only for the water used apart from the initial membership cost.
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Oonnayan
Oorja offers cooling as a service, either at the farm or market gate, on a per-crate-per-day arrangement. Oorja sets up a cooling unit at convenient locations to provide coldstorage facility to store about 5000 kg of fresh produce. This facility has a temperature and humidity control to ensure that the produce stays fresh for longer. Local farmers are employed to operate this facility.
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Oojjwal
Oorja offers a better alternative to traditional diesel-powered flour mills. The solar-powered agroprocessing unit uses clean energy to provide milling service to farmers at about 25% lesser cost. Milling is usually undertaken by farmer women who have to travel long distances to process the grains. With Oojjwal, the farmers now have easy access to a reliable mill at their doorstep.
Leadership Team
Demographics & Structure
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No. of Employees
21-50
M&E
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Internal, External Assessors
No
Policies
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Ethics and Transparency Policies
No
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Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy
No
Political & Religious Declarations
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On Affiliation if any
No
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On Deployment Bias if any
No
Registration Details
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Registration ID
U40108DL2016FTC309253
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FCRA
Not Available
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CSR Registration Number
Not Available
Location
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Headquarters
55, 2nd Floor, Lane-2, Westend Marg, Saidulajab, Near Saket Metro Station, New Delhi, NCT of Delhi, 110030
Directions
Other Details
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Type & Sub Type
For-profit
Private Limited Company