Over the past three decades, India has installed thousands of mini solar grids, mostly in remote villages. But maintaining these systems has proved to be more than the government can handle, leaving deserted panels and batteries far and wide.
, by Mongabay-India, the first solar village in the nearby state of Odisha met a similar fate.
The system, installed in 2017, worked for one or two days and then stopped, according to several local residents. The state’s renewable-energy authority confirmed that the grid was defunct. said that the Ugandan government is seeking international help because 80 percent of its 12,000 local solar connections in health-care centers are out of service. Journalistic“If you look at our landfills at a global scale, this will lead to a … problem. The toxic material can leech out. And, wherever the panel is sitting, that piece of land will be wasted,” said Danda, of the World Wide Fund.
In Jharkhand, at least 90 percent of the state’s more than 200 mini-grids are defunct, according to a consultant for the renewable-energy authority, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to comment freely about the mini-grids.
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