向城市贫民提供可靠的能源

Getting reliable energy to the urban poor

非正式住区的居民经常从私营的中介方那里获得电力。中介方获得电力设备接口，然后向邻居们出售电力，通常是根据使用的电器数量和种类，按月收取固定的费用。

Providing people in slums with a reliable electricity supply is not as great a problem for governments and local authorities as it would seem, argues VIJAY MODI, Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University in New York. He also serves on the Millennium Project headed Jeffrey Sachs.