It was a "huge success" when it was new. You didn't even have to ask Greenpeace, and they would tell you anyway. How Greenpeace’s Dream Of A Solar-Powered Village Fell Apart In Just A Few Years
“In the first three years, it worked well and people were using it. But after three years the batteries were exhausted and it was never repaired,” Ravi Kumar, a local shopkeeper, told Mongabay-India. “So now, while the solar rooftops, CCTV cameras and other infrastructure are intact, the whole system has become a showpiece for us.”
The power installation is being used to house cattle today.
It isn't the only such installation, as these kinds of things are pitched in areas without access to a power grid.
“It’s the same thing that’s happened a lot across Africa: goody-two-shoes comes in and builds them a small solar facility,” CO2 Coalition Director Patrick Moore, who co-founded Greenpeace in the 1970s, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Then, pretty soon the battery wears out and it just doesn’t get repaired and they don’t know what to do because they don’t have any expertise,” said Moore, who departed Greenpeace in the 1980s after he said the group lost touch with its original purpose. “There’s plenty of those stories.”
The village of Dharnai, India was connected to the local power grid in 2016 and 2017, and people never looked back.
Reliable power, enough to run refrigeration, and it is also cheaper power.
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