Myanmar: Homegrown Clean Energy an Alternative to Myanmar’s Spotty Power Grid

Mar 30, 2017 | Erin Rubin, Nonprofit Quarterly
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Necessity is the mother of invention, and in the case of rural Myanmar’s electricity generation, it’s also the mother of improvement. In rural areas where the national power grid does not reach, residents are creating electricity out of what’s available to them: sun and water. Solar and small-scale hydropower are generating electricity for households or villages, and the country is inadvertently bursting onto the highly modern clean-energy scene.