Across India, communities lumbered with expensive and completely impractical solar generation systems – referred to by the likes of Greenpeace as “solar villages” – are rejecting
Farmers in five villages of Maharashtra''s Jalgaon district have been duped into selling their agricultural land to solar power companies that used brokers to coerce and cajole the farmers.
Worried villagers say their ''rural paradise'' is being destroyed by Britain''s green energy rollout after plans for a vast, nearby solar farm were approved.
Why isn''t the government working to improve its efficiency and reduce losses? Why isn''t the power generation and distribution system established by the Congress government in Haryana
A six-megawatt ground mounted solar power plant, which powers the village of Modhera, is constructed on common grazing land, and has also restricted people''s access to their farms on the...
A viral video shows a villager claiming to generate electricity from sunlight using a filament to run a water pump. Experts say the claim is false and scientifically impossible.
While some kampungs are being electrified, villagers near Kampung Bangau are protesting the environmental impact of silica mining by a Chinese company along Bangau Beach
The AKP government has accelerated its work to build a Solar Power Plant (SPP) in the village of Tekneli in Kars (Qers). However, the villagers are concerned about the irreparable damage caused
While a group of villagers entered the buses, two others, who were yet to get into it, poured diesel on their bodies in a bid to immolate themselves. After seeing them, six others also followed suit.
While some villagers expressed optimism about Dharnai, India, solar facility in 2014, others protested it saying they didn''t want “fake” electricity, according to Mongabay-India.
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