ABSTRACT
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
people in the developing world. This could be the world’s largest
potential market for solar photovoltaics (PV), I told him.
