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How many people in India do not have electricity?
What energy solution could provide electricity for all the people of India?
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Some Men light up a kerosene petromax lamp in their home on the outskirts of Mumbai,India.
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Today, 70% of the population in Indian rural areas experience a dramatic situation where the electric supply is very low and irregular, and in some cases, completely absent from 80.000 villages in the country.
The country suffers from unequal energy distribution, with power cuts of 2 to 3 hours in major cities, and in rural areas from 6 to 10 hours during the hot season (May to June). Up to 50% of households in India have no access to modern lighting and the electric grid did not reach remote places of the countryside, with some provinces lacking electricity in the 95% of the region.
In rural India people have learned to live with the daylight, waking up early and going to bed soon after sunset and diverting electricity from the national power grid (the same that supplies them irregular electricity), and from candles or kerosene lamps to compensate when power cuts occur.
There are some solutions, like solar electricity from solar panels. Although many assume that renewable energy is too expensive for the poor but if it is combined with affordable financing mechanisms, it can be fully implemented and makes this type of clean electricity (and many others like portable rechargeable lamps ) a viable option for millions in India.
Solar power could give remote villages in India access to clean electricity.
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Today, 70% of the population in Indian rural areas experience a dramatic situation where the electric supply is very low and irregular, and in some cases, completely absent from 80.000 villages in the country.
The country suffers from unequal energy distribution, with power cuts of 2 to 3 hours in major cities, and in rural areas from 6 to 10 hours during the hot season (May to June). Up to 50% of households in India have no access to modern lighting and the electric grid did not reach remote places of the countryside, with some provinces lacking electricity in the 95% of the region.
In rural India people have learned to live with the daylight, waking up early and going to bed soon after sunset and diverting electricity from the national power grid (the same that supplies them irregular electricity), and from candles or kerosene lamps to compensate when power cuts occur.
There are some solutions, like solar electricity from solar panels. Although many assume that renewable energy is too expensive for the poor but if it is combined with affordable financing mechanisms, it can be fully implemented and makes this type of clean electricity (and many others like portable rechargeable lamps ) a viable option for millions in India.
Solar power could give remote villages in India access to clean electricity.
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