Switch On: The Series
Visit the Maasai savannah of Kenya, Africa’s largest slum and its newest hydroelectric dam. Journey into the coal mines and power plants of growing Vietnam. Cross Nepal with an environmental health scientist, studying people’s transition from the most dangerous cooking fuel, killing millions a year, to the safest. And bring solar electricity, for the first time ever, to the Arhuaco people of Northern Colombia. Watch this 7-part series, based on and expanded from the celebrated global energy documentary Switch On- a spectacular, unexpected journey to know and understand the issues driving energy development around the world.
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Episodes - Season 1
Modern Cooking Fuels
3 billion people still use wood or biomass to cook their food and heat their homes. But these necessities come at a devastating cost: 3 million people...
Urban Grid Expansion
100 million people move to cities each year, mostly in the developing world- and they often settle in slums. How will governments and utilities battle...
Developing on Coal
Nearly every country developed on coal, and the developing world is following suit because coal is cheap, local and easy to use. Affordable coal elect...
Hydropower in Africa
Many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America aim to build hydroelectric projects, large and small, to bring electricity to their growing cities an...
Off-Grid Solar, Part 1
For hundreds of thousands of off-grid villages around the world, building their own solar-powered microgrid may be the fastest way to get electricity....
Off-Grid Solar, Part 2
Join Dr. Scott Tinker, Solar Electric Light Fund and a team of volunteers as they return to the jungles of Colombia to build a solar microgrid- as uti...
Off-Grid Energy Solutions
1 billion people still live without electricity, mostly in rural areas where the power grid doesn't reach. Dr. Scott Tinker goes to rural Kenya, to se...
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