Switch on biomass

Power crisis spurs market for renewables in rural Bihar

Lit by biofuel

Out of option

Solar becomes lifeline for power-starved Bihar, but cheap and inferior equipment dominate market

Flicker of solar light in Chhattisgarh

A looming biomess

Industry, government blame each other for green sector’s fall

Solar lighting systems successful in Rajasthan

Power the people

For the country where only 15 per cent of its population have access to electricity, Nepal has come a long way. It took 84 years to achieve power …

When villages plug in

A Consumer movement is catching on in Nepal.Communities are extending the grid to villages.This threatens to undo the effort put in small-scale …

The just framework for climate

Going off-grid to power solution

The energy divide

Chronic power deprivation in some districts raises serious policy issues

Off-grid thinking

Solar lamps can reach where transmission lines cannot  

A consumer movement is born

Villages plug into the grid, manage their own supply  

How to take community-led rural electrification forward

Two steps at a time  

Shock treatment

Nightmarish laws and an insensitive government keeps thousands in the dark

Global grid

Whether it is Asia or Europe, countries find a new mantra: decentralise and electrify

Micropowerful

A microhydel project a day. Communities snatch the initiative from the government to electrify rural Nepal

Big engagement with small power

Generating electricity to raise economic profile

Lighting up villages

POISENED POLES

INDIA

SOUTH AFRICA

Rural electrification: a non starter

Rural power not happening

Extremely light!

Rural power