Off-Grid Solar, Part 2 -
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Wed, Aug 12 1:30 P.M. NH World (11.3)

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.

Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 106

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Wed, Aug 12	1:30 P.M.	Off-Grid Solar, Part 2 NH World (11.3)

About Switch On:

Join Dr.

Scott Tinker on an unexpected journey -- in turns heartwarming, funny, eye-opening and unsettling to understand the benefits and challenges of bringing energy to more than 3 billion citizens of the developing world.

In this spectacular 6-part series, he'll cross Nepal with an environmental health scientist, studying people's transition from the most dangerous cooking fuel, killing millions a year, to the safest; visit Ethiopia's huge new hydroelectric dam and Kenya's largest slum, to see how Africa will power its people; venture into the ports and coal mines that support a growing Vietnam; and install a solar microgrid to bring electricity, for the first time ever, to the Arhuaco people of Colombia.

Watch Switch On - Clips, Episodes & Previews

Off-Grid Solar, Part 1

Off-Grid Solar, Part 2

Modern Cooking Fuels

Urban Grid Expansion

Developing on Coal

Hydropower in Africa

Future Broadcast times for "Switch On": (show all)

Wed, Jul 8	1:30 P.M.	Modern Cooking Fuels NH World (11.3)
Wed, Jul 15	1:30 P.M.	Urban Grid Expansion NH World (11.3)
Wed, Jul 22	1:30 P.M.	Developing On Coal NH World (11.3)
Wed, Jul 29	1:30 P.M.	Hydropower In Africa NH World (11.3)
Wed, Aug 5	1:30 P.M.	Off-Grid Solar, Part 1 NH World (11.3)
Wed, Aug 12	1:30 P.M.	Off-Grid Solar, Part 2 NH World (11.3)