
Chapter 32
Early PV Markets and Solar Solutions in
South Asia
Neville Williams
Founder, Solar Electric Light Company, Co-Founder, SELCO-INDIA,
Founder and Former Chairman, Standard Solar Inc., USA
“True, they don’t have any electricity and solar could provide it,” John
Corsi, CEO of Solarex Corporation told me in 1990, “but they also
don’t have any money.” We were talking about the two billion people
in the world without access to electricity. The head of America’s
largest solar company, later absorbed into BP Solar, headquartered
near my home in Maryland, expressed doubts about my idea of
starting a non-profit organization to bring solar lighting to rural ...