Auroville’s Centre for Scientific Research CSR was founded in 1984, with an original focus on ferro-cement technologies: roofing channels, water tanks, doors, biogas tanks, and other products. Aurore Projects and Services is a renewable energy service-provider agency. It aims at progressively introducing renewable energy systems in India by interacting with product manufacturers, leasing companies, subsidy givers, and end users. AuroRE has executed renewable energy projects in the Indian states of Andaman and Nicobar, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Karnataka, Kerela, Orissa, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, and Gujarat. Partnerships have been established with the government, NGO's, and the private sector to promote renewable energy in different parts of India. Since 1992, AuroRE, through the Centre for Scientific Research (CSR), has been closely collaborating with IREDA, the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency, for the implementation of several renewable energy projects. The design of solar lights for different sectors of the market involved the study of the present lantern and a market survey. Then followed by making the concepts for solar lights, and work ended with four models of lights.