Dharnai is a village in Bihar’s Jehanabad district that has not seen electricity for last 30 years. Dharnai is not alone. The central grid-based system has failed to provide electricity to over 19,000 such villages in Bihar.

However, people have been using solar systems on a small scale to charge mobiles and lights. But the technology available to them is unreliable, providing no warranty or guarantee, and most of the sets have poor batteries that don’t work efficiently.

So challenging the real scenario and centralized grid approaches, Greenpeace is focusing on a cluster-based microgrid approach to provide electricity to the villagers still living in darkness.

In Dharnai, Greenpeace is facilitating the creation of a replicable electrification model that would provide a pathway for decentralised renewable energy which in turn will create a conducive environment for enhancing sustainable development.

When launched, the microgrid model will bring a paradigm shift in rural electrification based on renewable energy.

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