Some of the world’s most ground-breaking rural electrification businesses are scaling up in Bihar.

A start-up that can convert rice husks into electricity, has won an inaugural global business plan competition sponsored by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and Cisco Systems.

Saran Renewable Energy Pvt Ltd (SRE), a private enterprise from Bihar has won this year?s Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy, considered as ?Green Oscar?.