14 DAY TRIAL // Startling reports inform us that, presently, one in five people around the globe carry on with their lives without the benefits of electricity. Naturally, this situation takes its toll both on their educational perspectives and on their economical well-being.
Seeing how 400,000 of the afore-mentioned people come from India, SunEdison, a company that both builds and monitors solar power plants throughout the globe, decided to invest both time and money in providing remote communities in this country with energy coming from the sun.
Known as the Eradication of Darkness program, this project ran by SunEdison is to be implemented in several separate stages, as government grants and funds coming from private investors and corporations are also needed in order to ensure its success.
To put it bluntly: whenever the available budget allows for it, new solar power plants will be built in the areas where they are most needed, and then linked to their surrounding villages.
According to ecogeek.org, the Eradication of Darkness program has already managed to build a solar energy plant in Meerwada, central India, and 400 villages nearby presently rely on it as their only electricity source.
Future plans include building similar stations in 29 villages from the Guna District.
Given the fact that, up until now, these communities mainly used kerosene lamps in order to light their homes, efforts are also made to educate the local people with respect to using electricity in a safe manner.
The main idea is to avoid any accidents that might happen as a result of pure ignorance.
One of SunEdison's representatives explains that: “We have worked very hard to understand their needs and provide education about the possibilities of electricity. We believe education is one of the most important aspects to ensuring the project’s success.”
As far as we are concerned, the Eradication of Darkness project is a praise-worthy one, and we expect that all those who can lend a helping hand will not hesitate to get involved in it.