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Activists say solar can power India, but politics and economics of coal win out

2015-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: One year ago, environmentalists hailed this tiny village as the future of clean energy in rural India. Today, it is powered by coal. Dharnai, a community of about 3,200 people in eastern India's Bihar state, had been without electricity for three decades. So when activists with Greenpeace set up a solar-powered microgrid in July of 2014, the excitement was palpable. But, residents said, the problems started almost immediately. Greater Expectations: The New Geopolitics of Climate Change exposes...

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