ThinkProgress: Three years ago, Tarabhai Lakshmi Koli, 43, her construction worker husband, and their two grown sons, moved into their first real house in Siddapurwadi, a rural remote hamlet of 500 households in southern India, about 370 miles from Bangalore. But it lacked one important necessity: electricity.
For Koli and many others who live in distant areas of India, reliable energy often has been an unattainable luxury. Living without power makes it difficult to cook, to work, to read and study, and to stay...