Clementine Chambon

Chambon received an Echoing Green Climate Fellowship with a grant of $90,000 in 2015.^[3] She has a technical experience with biomass gasification systems and deployment of viable emerging decentralised energy solutions.^[4] In 2017, she won the Institution of Chemical Engineers Young Researcher Award.^[5][6] She is an EPSRC doctoral prize fellow at Imperial College London working on biomass gasification and its application for rural electrification.^[7]

Chambon is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Oorja.^[8][7] She says that she came up with Oorja during Climate-KIC Journey, a summer school that teaches climate entrepreneurship, in August 2014.^[9] Oorja provides clean energy and biochar to rural off-grid communities in India.^[10][11][12] Chambon is responsible for the design and building of Oorja's easily operable mini-power plants, which transform agricultural waste into affordable electricity and can be run by local people.^[11] Oorja's mission is to impact one million people by 2025.^[11] They subsidise electricity for low-income households, women-led households, schools, health centres and off-grid street lights.^[13]

In 2016, Chambon was included Forbes' 30 Under 30 List for top Social Entrepreneurs.^[14] She was also listed in MIT Technology Review's list of French innovators under 35 years old.^[15][16] In 2017, Oorja used electrified 100 homes in Uttar Pradesh's Sarvantara Village, providing energy for 1,00 people.^[17][18]