Sanjoy Sanyal talks to Nancy Wimmer on rural renewable energy business
What makes rural business in climate friendly technologies so hard to build?
Nancy Wimmer should know why. Thanks to support from Good Energies Foundation she has spent a decade in Bangladesh, a country that has built rural renewable energy businesses like no other. A few highlights of what she has learnt:
1. It requires dogged determination .
2. It requires specialized financing structures.
3. It requires obsession with quality.
4. It requires public sector entrepreneurship.
And if building it is hard , keeping it going is harder.