How do you increase demand from a microgrid?

Underprivileged communities often seem to have less demand for electricity. Energy access solutions are then designed to meet just this demand. This is a vicious cycle. It does not enable communities to use agricultural machinery or set up microenterprises and increase their livelihoods. They continue to live in poverty.

At Gumla district of Jharkhand, India 90% rely on agriculture and 71% are marginalised. Mlinda, a social enterprise is setting up microgrids and supplying 24×7 electricity here. With such bleak statistics, why does Mlinda consider this a viable market?

This is the third video in a series about Understanding microgrids in emerging economies, made by New Ventures Asia and the Miller Centre for social entrepreneurship, under the Energy Access Investment Readiness Program, supported by USAID