
522 Promoting PV in Developing Countries
Figure 34.14 John Bonda and Bernard McNelis at EPIA Workshop, Istanbul,
Turkey 1992.
Macias, launched the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE) in 2007,
to try and get the developing countries back on the agenda. But
even today the grid-connected PV experience of recent years has
“corrupted” the thinking; with a lot of effort going into for example
“feed-in tariffs for off-grid in developing countries”—but there is
no grid to feed into!!, to even paying Management Consultants
ATKerney to make in-depth studies and hence report that there is
big PV potential in “Sun Belt” countries, including China and India,
because ...