The International Solar Innovation Council (INSIC) is a new international non-governmental organization. It was established in Helsinki 25-26th July, 2017, in Hotel Rantapuisto in Vuosaari and in the office of the Finnish Nature Conservation Association (Suomen Luonnonsuojeluliitto) in Lauttasaari.
The initiative came from professor Santi Pada Gon Chaudhury, who is to act as the global chairman of the new organization.Professor Gon Chaudhury has, for decades, been one of India’s most well-known solar energy innovators and advocates. He was the driving force behind India’s first kilowatt-class, megawatt-class and gigawatt-class solar power pilot projects and also made the original proposal about the Indian Solar Mission, India’s ambitious solar power programme that is likely to install at least 800 gigawatts of solar electricity during the next 25 years.
Professor Gon Chaudhury visited in Finland in October 2015 as the guest of Finnish environmental and solar energy associations. His visit to the Technical University of Lappeenranta produced a significant new innovation called micro solar dome or Surya Jyoti. Professor Gon Chaudhury invented the idea at the roof of the University, inspired by large plastic, dome-shaped roof windows and by the calculations on how the lighting produced by solar domes has roughly the same light/heat ratio as the best LED lights.
Surya Jyoti is a small plastic roof window equipped with a prism spreading the sunlight falling on top of it,