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Vijay Bhaskar of Mlinda says a big mistake in development has been to assume that,
Mlinda公司的Vijay Bhaskar表示發(fā)展中的一個(gè)大問(wèn)題是假設(shè)
once people are hooked up to electricity, businesses will automatically flourish.
一旦人們通上了電，商業(yè)就會(huì)自動(dòng)繁榮興旺。
People have to be taught how to make the most of power, he says.
需要教會(huì)人們?nèi)绾伪M量利用電力，他說(shuō)。
"Bringing energy is the easy part. The hard part is finding productive ways to make use of it."
“通電是簡(jiǎn)單的部分。難的地方在于尋找富有成效的方法利用電力。”
This understanding is spreading throughout rural parts of South Asia and Africa,
這種認(rèn)識(shí)在南亞和非洲偏遠(yuǎn)地區(qū)傳播開(kāi)來(lái)，
where mini-grids are increasingly seen as one of the most promising ways of connecting the 1.1bn people in the world who still lack access to electricity.
在那些地方，微電網(wǎng)逐漸被認(rèn)為是最有前景的方式之一，讓未通電地區(qū)的11億人與世界相連。
The World Bank says users of mini-grids may need microfinance and vocational training to make best use of it.
世界銀行表示微電網(wǎng)用戶或許需要小額信貸和職業(yè)訓(xùn)練才能最好的利用它們。
According to one British expert, "mini-grid operators are not sellers of kilowatt-hours; they are stimulators of rural development."
一名英國(guó)專家表示，“微電網(wǎng)經(jīng)營(yíng)者不是千瓦時(shí)的售賣者，他們是鄉(xiāng)村發(fā)展的刺激者。”
Jaideep Mukherjee, the boss of Smart Power India, an NGO supported by the Rockefeller Foundation,
洛克菲勒基金會(huì)資助的非政府組織—印度智能電力的負(fù)責(zé)人Jaideep Mukherjee表示
says their job is to "demonstrate the benefits, train and then propagate".
他們的工作是“展示微電網(wǎng)的優(yōu)勢(shì)、培訓(xùn)，然后宣傳”。
Talk to Havil Bilung, a farmer in Narotoli, and the potential is clear.
在和Narotoli的一位農(nóng)民Havil Bilung的談話中，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)其潛力很明顯。
He says that with help from Mlinda, increased access to electricity has allowed him to use irrigation pumps
他說(shuō)有了Mlinda公司的幫助，電力讓他能夠使用灌溉泵
to grow an extra harvest of pumpkin and okra in the pre-monsoon months, boosting his income.
獲得南瓜和秋葵的額外大豐收，增加了他的收入。
More crops have cut the number of young men seeking itinerant employment in the cities during the dry season.
旱季更多農(nóng)作物的豐收讓去城市尋找流動(dòng)工作的年輕人人數(shù)減少。
Women make mustard seed cooking oil, which sells in Kolkata.
女人們用芥菜籽榨油，拿到加爾各答販賣。
An independent study for Mlinda found that GDP per person in eight villages with mini-grids rose by10.6% on average over the first 13 months,
對(duì)Mlinda公司的獨(dú)立研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，沒(méi)有安裝微電網(wǎng)的村莊，人均GDP僅為4.6%，
compared with 4.6% in a group of similar villages without them.
而相比之下，在前13個(gè)月內(nèi)，安裝了微電網(wǎng)的八個(gè)村莊的人均GDP上漲10.6%。
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