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Child with Solar Lantern in Bihar
A girl brings solar lanterns to the Kotak Urja 3 kVA solar station. The station was set up in April 2010 in a hamlet of Musahars - the poorest of the poor caste in Bihar - which has never had an electricity connection. The solar plant, installed at Sikandarpur, also provides potable water, community TV, a telephone boot and cellphone charging points. Sikandarpur Village, Danapur, Bihar.
07/11/2010
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The eastern state of Bihar is one of the most energy deprived regions in all of India. Government policy to distribute electricity through a centralised grid is failing to provide power to people in rural areas, and tens of millions of people have no access to electricity at all. If this traditional, fossil-fuel-based approach continues, the lack of energy access will soon become a bottleneck to Bihar's otherwise rapid development. This documentation includes various initiatives taken by local entrepreneurs who are successfully developing decentralized non-conventional energy production, using solar and discarded rice husk power systems.
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