New Energy

Solutions for the Great Electricity Crunch Are Everywhere

Can distributed energy resources help alleviate the global shortage of electricity? Manoj Sinha, chief executive officer of Husk Power Systems, thinks so.

A woman walks under the transmission lines of a Husk Power mini-grid in Rukubi, Nasarawa state, Nigeria.Source: AFOLABI SOTUNDE/Husk Power

Major economies around the world are grappling with electricity grids under stress from equipment bottlenecks and workforce shortages. What can be done to solve it?

This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi talks with Manoj Sinha, CEO of Husk Power Systems, about distributed energy resources and their potential to bring electricity to where it is needed most — from energy-poor regions in the Global South, to energy-hungry data centres in rich countries.