In India, Tata, one of the industrial giants of the country is working through concepts to invest in cheap distributed power supply in rural areas.
The company believes there is a market.......if not today, then soon. And they are positioning themselves to be part of it.
Sure, one thinks of solar powered telephone towers, remembering that the entire microwave repeater system across the north of Australia was run on solar power, and that was 25 years ago. So that is not new.
There are other options too, including local use of biomass produced for fuel such as palm oil, or other crop oils used in small diesel motors to run local cottage industry or produce modest amounts of electricity.
Tata is doing this big time though.
Does their model also offer some hope for many other rural and remote regions across Asia and Africa especially?
Read more here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20047974-54.html?tag=mncol;mlt_related
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