Solar energy services provider SunEdison, a subsidiary of NYSE-listed MEMC Electronic Materials, has announced a rural electrification programme called Eradication of Darkness.
SunEdison plans to design, install and manage distributed-generation solar power plants to provide electricity to Indian villages that have never before had access to electricity.
Quoting the UN, the company said that one in five people in the world do not have electricity and over 4 lakh of these people live in India. The company said that 29 villages in the Guna district of Madhya Pradesh will be taken up in the initial phase.