One Point Twenty-One Jigawatts (Episode 3 of Crazy Town)

After the more than two centuries since the American and French Revolutions, the kings are back — or at least, trying to be. But we don’t have to be stuck in this strange cycle.

Examples like these are emerging across India, from the Narmada valley to Adivasi Villages in Achanakmar Tiger Reserve, where distributed renewable energy is transforming rural life and radically challenging the assumption that the energy transition must happen from above, placing more emphasis on what is happening below.

Batteries have quickly become the fastest improving clean energy technology on the planet, exhibiting growth, cost reductions and improvements that overshadow the record-breaking rise of solar energy.