Was in a tour of South when a news item caught my attention. Odanthurai, a village 40 km from Coimbatore, was delivering free solar electricity and renewable energy to it's 8000 residents! What a powerful vision and what a powerful execution! What has been done once can be done again! Imagine building such models of self-sustained villages across the nation! We need empowered village renewable committees, mechanisms for extending loans to such village committees to enable their sustainability programs.
Had an inspiring discussion with Harish Hande, Selco at WEF. We need new operating models, new paradigms. Can we replace the model of electricity generation, transmission lines with new generation clean energy solutions like Solar, biomass, LEDs for energy efficiency and a pay-per-charge/use community service options? I believe this is very much feasible....Odanthurai shows the way!
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