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Off-grid Solar Power in Uttar Pradesh, India: improvisation and ‘jugaad’ practices

Jonathan Balls, Ph.D. student, Oxford University

Event Details

Date
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Time
12 p.m.
Description
Can a 'bottom of the pyramid' market for household solar power succeed in rural India? This talk will trace how a number of companies are selling quality solar power solutions for $160 or less. However, Balls will show how they are increasingly being outpaced by local informal shops, selling cheap products. He argues that the growing importance of cheap and improvised solutions for solar power unsettles a simple bottom of the pyramid account of the rapidly developing solar power market in India.
Cost
Free

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