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For solar power, South Asia has the ideal combination of both high solar insolation[1] and a high density of potential customers.[2][3][4]
Cheap solar can bring electricity to a major chunk of subcontinent's people who still live off-grid, bypassing the need of installation of expensive grid lines. Also since the costs of energy consumed for temperature control squarely influences a regions energy intensity, and with cooling load requirements roughly in phase with the sun's intensity, cooling from intense solar radiation could make perfect energy-economic sense in the subcontinent.[5][6][7]
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- ^ NASA population density map Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Solar LEDs Brighten Rural India's Future
- ^ Solar plan for Indian computers
- ^ Solar Cooling German report
- ^ Paper presented at the International Conference on Solar Air Conditioning, Germany Archived 2007-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Solar Cooling - Case Studies