For a village with no grid connection, solar is not an .
It is the only option that arrives this decade.
A and a battery cost less than extending a line twenty kilometres.
The first thing households buy with power is light.
Children study later, and clinics keep vaccines cold.
The second thing is a phone charger, which is how money moves.
Problems appear at the third stage, not the first.
A small system cannot run a pump or a mill.
Households that want to earn from power need far more .
that step is where most schemes .
is the other quiet failure.
A lasts twenty years; the battery lasts five, and nobody for it.