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“Subsidies are extremely harmful”

Interview: What is hampering the development of the photovoltaics off-grid markets? And what can be done? Prof. Peter Adelmann, Director of the Institute for Decentralized Electrification, Entrepreneurship and Education (id-eee), reports on his experience with projects in Ethiopia and other countries.

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pv magazine

08 Jan 2013

According to official data 1.6 billion people worldwide still do not have access to electricity. Is this information reliable? No, I believe that at least two billion people worldwide have to live without access to electricity – with all of the well-known negative consequences such as poor health or poor education. Many governments report figures …

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