How a Five Year-Old Startup Attracted GE’s Attention– Without Selling in the U.S.
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Urban slums have unreliable electricity, if they receive any grid power at all. Most slum dwellers rely on diesel generators or an inverter—a battery that users charge on the grid. As Chelina Odbert and Benjamin Twigg reported from Nairobi, some entrepreneurs in urban slums have created a black market for electricity, re-routing power to "unconnected" parts of a city.
http://blogs.forbes.com/megacities/?p=265