NORTH LAKHIMPUR, Feb 12 – North Lakhimpur will become the second town in the country after Bihar’s Sasaram to have a unique electric power supply system to beat the load shedding and reduce energy consumption. This is due to an innovative mission called Project UDC which aims at providing DC power supply to households in […]
Month: February 2017
Solar DC microgrids could do for electrification what mobile phones did for telephony
In the industrialised world, the power grid is so reliable that we take it for granted. But in India, where blackouts are a sad fact of daily life, being connected to the grid is no guarantee of reliable electricity. In a 2015 study of villages in six Indian states [PDF], for example, the vast majority […]