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Off-Grid Solar, Part 2
Season 1
Episode 6
Dr. Scott Tinker and a team of volunteers return to the jungles of Colombia with an international solar nonprofit, to build a solar microgrid – as utilities, NGOs and local entrepreneurs are doing across the developing world. With the help of the Arhuaco villagers, for the first time ever this remote community will have the power to SWITCH ON.
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Scott Tinker explores what it takes to plan, fund and build solar far off the beaten path.
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