If solar power can be made to do what grid power has not been able to, the advantages are obvious and many — children can study well, women can organise their work better, people need not choke on kerosene fumes. The solar power revolution is shining bright in India thanks to the vigorous push it has received from the Federal and state governments, and the enthusiastic response of the private sector. No wonder, he told The Guardian that he hoped to bring solar power to a hundred thousand homes by 2016. As of this September, his company, Mera Gao Power (which translates to ‘My village electricity’), had covered 20,000 households across 1,500 villages in northern India. This, and the government’s renewables, push have spawned a number of start-ups like Mera Gao Power.