Globally 1 in 5 do not have electricity; enter the "Eradication of Darkness Program".

[kristopher]

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SunEdison Provides Solar Power to Indian Villages
30 MAY 2012

SunEdison, a worldwide solar energy services provider and subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, today announced a rural electrification program called Eradication of Darkness. Through the program, SunEdison will design, install and manage distributed-generation solar power plants, to provide energy to Indian villages that have never before had access to electricity.

According to the United Nations, one in five people in the world do not have electricity. Over 400,000 of these people live in India. Lack of electricity limits education and economic opportunities and makes populations more vulnerable to sickness and famine. The SunEdison Eradication of Darkness Program aims to address this situation.

The program will be implemented in stages. There are 29 villages in the Guna District that have been identified for the next phase. Appropriate financial and other partners are being sought to electrify these remote communities.

SunEdison has more than 50MW of interconnected solar electricity in India today. The company’s projects range from small rooftop installations to South Asia’s largest solar field in Gujarat. Also in Gujarat, the company recently completed a 1MW project suspended over the Narmada Canal. This project is conserving drinking water while producing clean energy.

SunEdison also ...

http://www.solarnovus.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5010:sunedison-uses-solar-to-bring-indian-villages-electricity&catid=41:applications-tech-news&Itemid=245

edited to add - No Kurt, SunEdison is not and has never been owned by Monsanto. Did you not read your own reference? Seems like that point is a difficult one to miss by accident.

[KurtNYC]

1. Nice press release. SunEdison is owned by Monsanto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEMC_Electronic_Materials

Monsanto owns MEMC and they bought SunEdison in 2009.

[GliderGuider]

2. Oops!

"Solar Power: From Santa to Satan"

[AtheistCrusader]

3. And?

[kristopher]

4. Getting solar power to people without electricity is obviously evil, of course.

What amazes me is that time was spent to actually track down ownership and then falsely represent the findings.

Monsanto Electronic Materials Company (MEMC) was started by Monsanto in 1959 to pioneer the manufacture of silicon wafers for semiconductors.

They were sold in 1989 to a German holding company specializing in silicon wafer manufacturing around the world.

[kristopher]

5. Compare & Contrast: "Nuclear to brighten dark continent: energy minister"

"We cannot, because we are black, end up having a dark continent," Dipuo Peters said at a business breakfast hosted by The New Age."

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/05/31/nuclear-to-brighten-dark-continent-energy-minister

[bananas]

6. They did so well with the PBMR. nt

[kristopher]

7. Yes. Any day now they'll be bringing those to market everywhere...

The demise of the pebble bed modular reactor
BY STEVE THOMAS | 22 JUNE 2009
Article Highlights
After years of investment, South Africa has abandoned its plan to develop a fleet of electricity-generating pebble bed modular reactors (PBMR), once hyped as the future of nuclear power.
Problems with the PBMR aren't new; a 2008 German report chronicles Germany's own problems developing the reactor since 1967.
China, still developing PBMR-based power reactor designs, has taken a slow approach and it is unclear if they have run into problems as well.

http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/the-demise-of-the-pebble-bed-modular-reactor