This video can be downloaded here: www. ashdenawards. org Grameen Shakti an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy won in 2008. To learn more, visit the link above and check the Ashden Awards Blog ashdenawards. blogspot. They also follow us com bit on Facebook. ly Twitter Twitter. com Grameen Shakti won an Ashden Award first prize in 2006 for providing photovoltaic (PV) solar home systems through affordable loans to 65,000 households in Bangladesh. His work has rapidly expanded and diversified. were installed with 2,000 employees now working from 400 local offices, a total of 150,000 solar home systems. In the past two years, Grameen Shakti also 14 000 cheap, efficient cooking stoves and 3,000 biogas plants sold. Trained technicians, mostly women, manufacture components in 20 technology centers, and installation and service systems. Some of these technicians have been self-employed entrepreneurs. Grameen Shakti aims, provided one million solar home systems have 10 million improved stoves, biogas and a half million by 2015.