Vivekananda Shakti Kendra - at Ullon, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal – is jointly developed and promoted by VSSU and ONergy, to distribute sustainable renewable energy solutions in rural West Bengal.

•    Vision - provide sustainable solutions for efficient and economic ways of lighting, electricity and cooking, and eradicate the use of fossil fuel (kerosene and diesel), used for lighting and electricity in rural West Bengal.
•    Location - VSSU’s The Oceanic Library, Ashok Nilay, Ullon, South 24 Parganas.

Vivekananda Shakti Kendra - Core Activity and Design
REC will bring lighting, electricity, and cooking solutions to households in South 24 Parganas, by incrementally deploying solar LED lights, improved cooking stoves, solar cookers and subsequently installing bio-energy systems (gasification, biogas).

a)    Education and Awareness – The center will be disseminate awareness and education on the benefits of renewable energy
b)    Entrepreneur Training  - Micro-entreprenerus will be trained in the center to distribute renewable energy solutions thus providing livelihood and green jobs

Products and Solutions
•    Lighting - Solar LED Lamps (0.5-2Watt) & home lighting (2.5-15 Watt)
•    Electrification - 10-100 KWe Biomass Gasifier (micro power systems)
•    Cooking – Biogas, Solar Cookers, Improved Cooking stoves and burners (Community and Household)

Benefits
Lighting and Electrification cuts across all sectors of development. For example - improving health services, providing clean water, enabling better communications, facilitating education, improving food security, reducing environmental damage and driving micro-enterprise development.

Beneficiary and Market
•    Market – 80 million rural households across India, do not have access to clean and reliable energy - leading to a food, development and environment crisis.
•    Beneficiary – South 24 Parganas, is one of the most underdeveloped parts of india – plagued with poverty, health, education problems.
South 24 Parganas has a population of approx 7,000,000, of which
o    78% households use kerosene for lighting,
o    79% households do not have access to electricity
o    96% households use biomass for cooking.