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05-13-2014, 09:25 PM
Bangladesh Leads the World in Small Solar Power Home Installations
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Bangladesh is k**wn for its apparel manufacturing industry—and for the conditions faced by garment workers toiling in Dickensian factories for a dollar a day. But according to a report released Sunday, the South Asian nation has become a top hot spot for renewable energy jobs, creating a green workforce as large as Spain’s in 2013
How? Solar energy
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Bangladesh is k**wn for its apparel manufacturing industry—and for the conditions faced by garment workers toiling in Dickensian factories for a dollar a day. But according to a report released Sunday, the South Asian nation has become a top hot spot for renewable energy jobs, creating a green workforce as large as Spain’s in 2013
How? Solar energy
Bangladeshis are installing small photovoltaic systems at a rate of 80,000 a month, says the report (http://www.irena.org/Publications/rejobs-annual-review-2014.pdf) from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). In a country where only 47% of the population had access to electricity (http://www.adb.org/publications/bangladesh-increasing-access-energy) in 2009, according to the Asian Development Bank, solar is increasingly becoming a way to leapfrog the need to build a bigger power grid Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/13/bangladesh-green-jobs-boom/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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