Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced a goal to ensure affordable access to electricity 24 hours a day, seven days a week to all households in the nation within five years.
In a speech at the inauguration of the International Seminar on Energy Access, PM Singh put an emphasis on solar and other renewable energy technologies in meeting that goal. He noted that one million households in India are now using solar energy to provide lighting, and reiterated a goal of supplying 20 million rural households with solar home lighting by 2022.
Indian Minister of New and Renewable Energy Dr. Farooq Abdullah also spoke at the inauguration, noting that renewable energy can be an excellent tool to provide energy access, and noting that India has one of the largest decentralized, off-grid renewable energy programs in the world.
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