Dhaka, July 29 -- Dipal C Barua started installing rooftop solar systems in Bangladesh when the PV industry itself was in its infancy, with his company Grameen Shakti. Now heading up the Bright Green Energy Foundation, Barua installs small residential systems, streetlights, and irrigation pumps throughout rural Bangladesh under various government programs.
How would you describe the situation back when Bangladesh installed its first solar home system?
As a co-founder of the Grameen Bank, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for micro credit operations, I walked 20,000 villages in the country between 1976 and 1996 where the borrowers insisted us that getting electricity can help them improve their quality of life. That time the volume of electricity ...