'For four hundred million Indians, decentralised energy makes sense today'

摘要

The Government drew precisely the wrong conclusions from the blackouts [last summer]. It said, effectively, "There are so many power failures that we've obviously got to ramp up the mains grid as quickly as possible, and that means more coal and nuclear power. We haven't got time to wait for renewables..." You can't treat a cancer with a Band-Aid It's a massive misconception of what's really needed. It's like they're looking for a quick fix: a Band-Aid for cancer. But the best treatment for an unreliable grid isn't to pour yet more resources into it. More importantly, this isn't going to reach the 400-500 million people who have never had any electricity.