Solar power lights up lives of Indian rural poor
Boommi Gowda used to fear the night.The retrofit process itself can range from a simple count of existing lamps to a brightshine very detailed energy survey, which includes collecting information from your existing lighting, Her 70-year-old vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp and so avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off the neighborhood dogs.
But things have changed at Gowda's home in the remote southern Indian village of Nada, thanks to a solar-powered lamp pouring white light across the front of the mud-walled hut she shares with her three grown children,You can easily say that it is a passion or a way to express yourself. So what's the story? Ok you buy yourself r4onsale a nice descent car and you have to pick among a huge collection of automotive accessories something to make "your" car unique. a puppy and a newborn calf.
"I can see!" Gowda said, giggling through a 100-watt smile as she surveyed the Spartan hut painted black to ward off termites. Under a new LED bulb, her daughter worked her job rolling Indian cigarettes, or bidis, while her son sat smoking one of them nearby. Gowda has lived her entire life here, a kilometer (half-mile) walk through rice fields, vegetable gardens and jungle overgrowth to the nearest road. She had never had electricity before.
"Life is improving," the frail woman said. "Look, we have light. I am happy!"
Across India, thousands of homes are receiving their first light through myriad small companies and aid programs that are bypassing the central electricity grid to deliver high-tech solar panels to the rural poor.
Despite decades of robust economic growth, at least 300 million Indians — a quarter of the 1.2 billion population — still have no access to electricity at home.
They have been left to rely on yesterday's fuels, including cow dung and more commonly kerosene, paying premium black-market prices when government supplies run out. They scurry during daylight to finish housework and school lessons.Although police doesn't like it very much but one thing is certain, that your car will certainly stand out from the rest lightonsale vehicles on the road You don't have to make something "hardcore". They wait patiently for grid connections that often never come.
Next door to the Gowdas, 58-year-old Leerama, who goes by one name, wore a grimace as she watched her neighbors light their home for the first time. She said her family would wait for the grid, insisting they were entitled to it and pointing to electrical wiring dangling uselessly from her walls. But as her 16-year-old son interrupted to complain he was struggling in school because he cannot study at night like his classmates, Leerama relented.
"We are very much frustrated," she said. "The children are very anxious. They ask every day 'Why don't we have power like other people?' So if the grid doesn't come in a month, maybe we will get solar, too."
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These two families, living on the outskirts of the west coast port of Mangalore in the southern state of Karnataka, are among many in India who are increasingly looking for solar solutions to power them into modernity.
For them, going solar has nothing to do with India's green ambitions or helping to lower carbon footprints to stem the trend in climate change. It has nothing to do with ensuring India's future energy supply to support continued development.
For them, it is simply a matter of security and ease, of being able to cook by light, read a newspaper, listen to the radio or earn a little extra by working after dark. It's about warding off nighttime predators and helping the children excel in school. It is about finally being able to use coveted items like televisions and kitchen mixers.
Experts say these customers, who live day-by-day on wage labor and what they harvest from the land, will be the key to fueling a solar boom in the next decade,You want someone that has the experience in LED lighting to guide you to the right product shinebright that is best suited to your project. as solar technology presents an elegant and immediate solution to powering everything from light bulbs and heaters to water purifiers and agricultural pumps.
"Their frustration is part of our motivation. Why are we so arrogant in deciding what the poor need and when they should get it?" said Harish Hande, whose Selco Solar Light Pvt. Ltd. is owned by three foreign aid organizations and so far has fitted solar panels to 125,000 rural Karnataka homes, including the Gowdas'. "If they were not frustrated with the energy situation, there would be no need for us. It makes things interesting, to prove this can be done."
It is not an easy task. Their low-income customers need help with everything from setting up their first bank accounts and negotiating loans to navigating the fine print of payment contracts. To find new clients, agents must go door-to-door in remote settlements,This is also known as your return on investment ledbright or ROI. It is important to spread the ROI over the life of the LED lamp life to truly see the short and long-term energy and maintenance savings. sometimes crossing rivers, hiking mountains or wading through wetlands to reach them.
Boommi Gowda used to fear the night.The retrofit process itself can range from a simple count of existing lamps to a brightshine very detailed energy survey, which includes collecting information from your existing lighting, Her 70-year-old vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp and so avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off the neighborhood dogs.
But things have changed at Gowda's home in the remote southern Indian village of Nada, thanks to a solar-powered lamp pouring white light across the front of the mud-walled hut she shares with her three grown children,You can easily say that it is a passion or a way to express yourself. So what's the story? Ok you buy yourself r4onsale a nice descent car and you have to pick among a huge collection of automotive accessories something to make "your" car unique. a puppy and a newborn calf.
"I can see!" Gowda said, giggling through a 100-watt smile as she surveyed the Spartan hut painted black to ward off termites. Under a new LED bulb, her daughter worked her job rolling Indian cigarettes, or bidis, while her son sat smoking one of them nearby. Gowda has lived her entire life here, a kilometer (half-mile) walk through rice fields, vegetable gardens and jungle overgrowth to the nearest road. She had never had electricity before.
"Life is improving," the frail woman said. "Look, we have light. I am happy!"
Across India, thousands of homes are receiving their first light through myriad small companies and aid programs that are bypassing the central electricity grid to deliver high-tech solar panels to the rural poor.
Despite decades of robust economic growth, at least 300 million Indians — a quarter of the 1.2 billion population — still have no access to electricity at home.
They have been left to rely on yesterday's fuels, including cow dung and more commonly kerosene, paying premium black-market prices when government supplies run out. They scurry during daylight to finish housework and school lessons.Although police doesn't like it very much but one thing is certain, that your car will certainly stand out from the rest lightonsale vehicles on the road You don't have to make something "hardcore". They wait patiently for grid connections that often never come.
Next door to the Gowdas, 58-year-old Leerama, who goes by one name, wore a grimace as she watched her neighbors light their home for the first time. She said her family would wait for the grid, insisting they were entitled to it and pointing to electrical wiring dangling uselessly from her walls. But as her 16-year-old son interrupted to complain he was struggling in school because he cannot study at night like his classmates, Leerama relented.
"We are very much frustrated," she said. "The children are very anxious. They ask every day 'Why don't we have power like other people?' So if the grid doesn't come in a month, maybe we will get solar, too."
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These two families, living on the outskirts of the west coast port of Mangalore in the southern state of Karnataka, are among many in India who are increasingly looking for solar solutions to power them into modernity.
For them, going solar has nothing to do with India's green ambitions or helping to lower carbon footprints to stem the trend in climate change. It has nothing to do with ensuring India's future energy supply to support continued development.
For them, it is simply a matter of security and ease, of being able to cook by light, read a newspaper, listen to the radio or earn a little extra by working after dark. It's about warding off nighttime predators and helping the children excel in school. It is about finally being able to use coveted items like televisions and kitchen mixers.
Experts say these customers, who live day-by-day on wage labor and what they harvest from the land, will be the key to fueling a solar boom in the next decade,You want someone that has the experience in LED lighting to guide you to the right product shinebright that is best suited to your project. as solar technology presents an elegant and immediate solution to powering everything from light bulbs and heaters to water purifiers and agricultural pumps.
"Their frustration is part of our motivation. Why are we so arrogant in deciding what the poor need and when they should get it?" said Harish Hande, whose Selco Solar Light Pvt. Ltd. is owned by three foreign aid organizations and so far has fitted solar panels to 125,000 rural Karnataka homes, including the Gowdas'. "If they were not frustrated with the energy situation, there would be no need for us. It makes things interesting, to prove this can be done."
It is not an easy task. Their low-income customers need help with everything from setting up their first bank accounts and negotiating loans to navigating the fine print of payment contracts. To find new clients, agents must go door-to-door in remote settlements,This is also known as your return on investment ledbright or ROI. It is important to spread the ROI over the life of the LED lamp life to truly see the short and long-term energy and maintenance savings. sometimes crossing rivers, hiking mountains or wading through wetlands to reach them.
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