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Bangladesh: A paradigm for poor countries’ going solar

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The saying does not go always – ‘It requires steep subsidies to be able to push aside environment-polluting fossil fuels’. One just need to have the resources and will to explore and not exploit the nature’s power.

Bangladesh has shown it rightfully. In this country, more than two out of three households cannot get electricity out of a socket! But, the scenario has changed. Some 80,000 homes here, now, own a basic solar panel generating about 50 watts of power.

The energy fro the sun is stored in a small battery, which can light up three bright, energy-saving lamps for four hours. It is really encouraging and fascinating.

Sazzad Hossain, manager of Rahimafrooz told a solar industry conference held at a southern German town said,

When we started in the early 1990s the villagers didn’t believe the module would produce light from the sun. We connected it to a light and when the light went on, people believed, so that’s the way we did promotion.

Via: planetark

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