Solar electricity in stiff competition with cheaper grid power in Bihar

According to Jaideep Mukherji, CEO, Smart Power India, there has been a lot of progress in Bihar both in terms of connection and hours of electricity supply to households

At Lokhariya, an interior village in Araria district, at Sajida Begum’s house is heard the wailing of her 16-day-old grandson, who is being given a bath and an oil massage.

A very pleased Sajida says her house, like many others in the village, got electricity from the government-powered grid in 2017. 

When Business Standard visited the village in September 2015, it was not connected to the grid. A mini solar power plant of Decentralised Energy Systems India Pvt Ltd (DESI Power) was supplying electricity for four hours in the evening to about 204 houses and a masjid, besides lighting seven