Powered by Women
On the 29th of August it was a moment of pride for me to be the representative of YMP at IFC’s Powered by Women Round Table Discussion. YMP has committed to two initiatives in IFC’s Powered by Women Program in…
Overcoming Remoteness
Providing services to rural communities, like Yoma Micro Power does for electricity, is inherently challenging given the often remote location of these communities. Before building a community mini-grid, Yoma Micro Power will visit the village and explain our electricity services...
Harmonizing Conservation and Development
As an aspiring conservationist, working in energy sustainability has offered many unexpected surprises. For the last four years, I’ve spent a lot of time planting trees for rainforest restoration programs and talking to the public about habitat loss and endangered...
O&M Engineer Job Opening
Detailed Description Position: O&M Engineer Location: Sagaing, Magway, Mandalay, Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar) Reporting: O&M Manager Job Profile A. Site O&M i. Keeping Solar Site uptime ii. Solar Site Preventive Maintenance iii. Solar Site Corrective Maintenance iv. Solar Site Meter...
Roads & Electricity: Part 2
I wrote in an earlier blog on “Roads and Electricity” about the need for investment into transportation links to rural villages, but it isn’t that just access roads and bridges to villages are the only missing pieces of the transportation...
Roads & Electricity: Part 1
We recently crossed this bridge by motorbike (as I was riding pillion, I got down and walked, for safety!) to reach a village that would like to be electrified through our village mini-grid and power plant. The village head told...
Solving Problems that Matter
A few years ago, I was profiled in Prof. Khanjan Mehta’s book titled “Solving Problems that Matter (and Getting Paid for It): STEM Careers in Social Innovation and Global Sustainable Development”. The book was meant to promote STEM education (Science,...
Taking action to tackle electrification in Myanmar
70% of Myanmar’s total population and 84% of the rural population do not have access to electricity. It is a daunting task for the government of Myanmar to achieve the goal of 100% electrification by 2030 that it had set...