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The women who run our village solar grid

Satkhira

Published 6 July 2026 Updated 11 November 2026 2 min read
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A reader-submitted essay on the people and places at the centre of the transition.

Shirin collects the tariff, Rina reads the meters, and nobody has paid a diesel bill since March.

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