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PBS NewsHour | How Social Entrepreneurs Use Rice Husks to Power India | PBS

Duration: 08:01
Program: PBS NewsHour
Broadcast Date: Jan. 17, 2013

India suffers from chronic power interruptions and failures stemming from energy policies created to court voter blocs and never accounted for the cost of power. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on efforts by social entrepreneurs to solve part of India's power problems by creating village-based micro grids.

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Post Date: January 17, 2013