1. VLE - Social Enterprise Child of LUTW
Dr. Dave Irvine-Halliday and
Sridhar Ponugupati
Visionary Lighting & Energy India (VLE)
17th Nov 2012 , KCP Sugars, Andhra Pradesh, India

2. Awards
Finalist IET Innovation Awards, London, UK (24Nov2010)
Engineering Institute of Canada, K.Y. Lo Medal (1Mar2008)
Honorary Doctorate, Aberdeen University, Scotland (4July 2006)
Centennial Medal Award, Alberta Government (23Dec2005)
TIME Canada Heroes (20June2005)
Meritorious Service Medal (MSM), Canadian Government (30May2005)
YMCA Calgary Peace Medal Award (26Nov2004)
Alberta Science & Technology Award(15Oct2004)
Reader’s Digest Canadian Hero of the Year Award (14June2004)
Alberta Emerald Award (9June2004)
Saatchi and Saatchi Award Laureate 2003
Tech Museum Award Laureate 2002
Rolex Award Laureate 2002
University of Calgary President’s Internationalization Achievement Award 2002
IEEE Third Millennium Medal for Outstanding Contributions 2000
APEGGA Summit Award for Contributions to Society 2000

3. World’s First Chess
Game Lit by LED
Strip Light - LUTW
Annapurna Base Camp
Nepal 1999

4. Bulb & Can type
Fuel Based Lighting Kerosene Wick Lamps
Lapsi Danda
Nepal June 2001 Knuckles Range
Sri Lanka June 2002

5. Solid State Lighting for the
Developing World:
The First Generation
Family in Thulo Pokhara, Nepal – the first
village in the world to be lit permanently by SSL
Kathmandu, Nepal May 2000
“A foreigner has come and made Thulo
Pokhara heaven!” Nepal July 2000

6. Woman and children reading by SSL Jumla, Nepal August 2000
“We used to be in darkness, now “This is the first time in the
we are in light!” lives of my children that they
have been able to read at night!”
Nepal August 2000
Sri Lanka 2001

7. Data shows that the torch systems
using incandescent lamps cause
significantly more environmental
damage than do those using solid
state lighting.
This is mainly due to the larger
number of batteries required if using
incandescent lamps and is
approximately twice as bad if using
carbon zinc batteries compared to
using alkaline batteries.
[Parsons, 2007]
LUTW 3WLED Torch Bulb
Unbreakable & Extends Battery Life by
10 times
Kathmandu, Nepal July 1999

8. Pico Power Nepal: A Success Story
July 2001

9. LUTW provides the first solid state hospital operating
theatre lighting in the developing world.
Bagdogra, India – July 2001

10. Street Lighting by PPN
and LUTW in (Butanese)
Refugee Camp
Damak, Nepal Dec. 2006

11. Economic Cost of Fossil Fuel Based Sources of
Lighting at the Global Level
• One in three people world wide (around 2 billion) obtain light with
kerosene and other fuels, paying $38 billion/year
• This amounts to 20% of global lighting costs, however, they receive less
than 0.1% of the resulting lighting energy services (Mills, 2005)
• The poor are spending $5-20/kWh for their energy services which can
represent up to 30% of household income, in comparison to $0.15/kWh
in developed countries

12. “They have given us eyes!”
Uri Village
Southern Annapurna
Himalaya
Nepal 16 April 2009

13. Where is all this happening?
Chad Afghanistan Mongolia
Niger
Pakistan Nepal
China
Mali
Canada Haiti Burma
Dominican Tibet
Mexico
Republic Bhutan
Guatemala Cambodia
Yemen India
Honduras Ghana Philippines
Nicaragua Cameroon Kenya Malaysia
Costa Rica Congo
Uganda Sri Lanka
Angola Rwanda
Ecuador
Namibia Tanzania Indonesia
Peru
South Africa
Bolivia Zambia Papua New Guinea
Brazil
Chile
Argentina Light Up The World Foundation
www.lutw.org

14. Namaste