Treeva is a startup generating energy from passing vehicles and trains. Her turbines harness airflow to power local infrastructure like lighting and EV chargers.
We [the podcast, link below] talked about the technology, the challenges of scaling, and her personal drive to tackle climate change, inspired by her family’s personal experience of climate-change induced flash floods.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7t8eZpsUhqnfjpYT21sPcK
Meet the innovator harnessing wind power from passing trains
Anjali Devadasan has created wind turbines to stand beside railways; generating electricity from speeding trains to provide sustainable power for stations and work sites.
Dinner table conversations with her father about railways, cities and the environment led a young Anjali Devadasan to explore how transport infrastructure could be used to generate renewable energy. Aged 14, she prototyped an idea for a highway speed cushion that produces electricity from passing vehicles to power lighting, and considered if wind turbines stood on the roofs of buildings could create energy for urban applications.
But it was the devastating flash floods in Kerala in India in 2018 which reminded Anjali of these early ideas, to eventually create an impactful business using small two-metre high turbines to generate renewable energy. “The floods were terrifying,” she recalls. “Five hundred people died, 33,000 were affected and members of my family were trapped in a kitchen with water levels rapidly rising."
