Research & Development Program

1. The research programs have four distinct areas:
2. Exploring ways to develop appropriate technologies and their uses
3. Developing ways to popularize and making the renewable energy systems easily accessible to a large number of households and institutions
4. Innovating financial services for the customers to facilitate rapid expansion of use of renewable energies
5. Developing and fabricating the solar accessories (charge controller, lamps, DC to DC converters etc.) locally in order to reduce the total system cost. Grameen Shakti has already developed the following products at low cost
   
    
   • Charge controller
   • DC-DC Converter
   • DC Ballast for fluorescent lamp
   • Mobile phone charger