http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/business/energy-environment/03iht-rbogsolar.html?_r=1&scp=27&sq=India&st=cse
This article explains a new endeavor in the rural villages of India to provide solar power electricity. This effort has been pushed by a company called Selco, which has been installing the solar powered lights since 2003. The article touches upon the banks, government, and other organizations which have been capable of providing the funding to install and operate this new venture. Many of the villages who are recieving the funding are ones that have never had acces to energy previously. Beyond the financial costs of the implementation, the article touches upon the opprotunities that the many farmers in these villages have to utilize this new, sustainable form.
As India is one of the fastest growing populations in the world as well as one of the leading consumers of coal, this new shift in efforts by both entrpenuers and the government proves their progression. With so many of its population living in these rural villages, the ability to provide sustainable means of energy proves that they are working towards a greater goal. Can China and other developing countries provide this same opprotunity to its citizens. This article raises questions on how developing countries, with addictions to coal, are striving to implement sustainable forms of energy for its people. Even if it starts with those that dont have the means to afford it.
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