Sunset on Greenpeace's Solar Village feat. Gayatri Vaidyanathan

Dharnai Live was Greenpeace's showcase rural electrification
project that aimed to prove that solar microgrids were the way to
meet rural India's power needs in a sustainable manner. The solar
electricity proved to be frustratingly unreliable and
insufficient even for the most basic subsistence needs of the
villagers. So much publicity was generated by Greenpeace that
when the day came for the ribbon cutting ceremony the Chief
Minister of Bihar attended. He was met with placard waving
protestors demanding real, not fake electricity. One week later a
transformer was installed and the village was connected to the
grid. Gayatri Vaidyanathan walks us through the history of this
project and the contradictions between the environmentalist's
values and rural Indian realities and perspectives.