Emergence BioEnergy Inc. |

About

Most of us who have access to reliable power are connected to a central grid. This has been the case for almost 100 years, or since the proliferation of modern energy services like electricity or piped natural gas. The idea that this could change is hard to imagine. However, for more than a billion people around the world, the centralized approach has failed to provide access to energy. Not only are hundreds of...

Project Information

EBI successfully produced electricity from biogas in two villages in Bangladesh. Building upon what we learned from this experience, we are now organizing a larger experiment to take place in 2011 that will establish a robust and economically sustainable model which we can then bring to scale. Completed Experiment The villages of Dokkhin Kustchia and Icchidiggi, both located outside of Dhaka, were electrified for...

Our Team

Iqbal Quadir – CEO and Founder EBI is headed by Iqbal Quadir, the visionary and catalyst behind GrameenPhone, the largest cellular carrier in Bangladesh that also provides nearly universal access to telephony for the rural poor. Quadir’s career has focused on leveraging emerging first world technologies for the benefit of bottom up, private sector driven, approaches to development. His goal is to apply the...