First Fully Solar Powered Village in India: Dharnai
Surrounded by stories of gloom, doom and disappointment, we do not often get to hear news worth celebrating and sharing. Here, however, is one truly worth story of being happy and proud about!Even as more than 300 million people wait for electricity in India, Dharnai in Bihar unshackled from darkness and declared itself as an energy-independent village on 20 July.
The Dharnai grid serves about 450 homes, housing 2,400 residents, ngo says, as well as roughly 50 businesses, streetlights, water pumps, two schools, health care center, and other public and private ventures. It has a battery to store excess electricity, for use during the sunless hours.
The people of Dharnai village used to have a facility supplied by the state Government, which provided electricity, but this hasn’t been available for the last 33 years and diesel generators were the only source of electricity.
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