How India's fishing industry could be powered by the sun
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It was a few years after the 2004 tsunami had struck. Fisherman and YouTuber M Sakthivel, 29, clearly remembers the day when the main street in his shanty in the coastal town of Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, was lit up with five lamp posts powered by solar energy. “Until then, electricity was something we had only heard about. After sunset, all our work would be done with the help of kerosene lamps,” Sakthivel recalls.
Today, Sakthivel has become a champion of sorts for affordable domestic electrification projects that use solar energy panels. He has invested his earnings from his YouTube channel ThoothukudiMeenavan — which has more than seven lakh subscribers — to install nine domestic solar power units (costing between ₹15,000 to ₹60,000) in his colony and is looking forward to setting up some more in the coming weeks.
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