Switch On: The Series

tv show

poster for Switch On: The Series

7 total episodes

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1 seasons

First Aired February 01, 2024

Overview

Visit the Maasai savannah of Kenya, Africa’s largest slum and its newest hydroelectric dam. Journey into the coal mines and power plants of growing Vietnam. Cross Nepal with an environmental health scientist, studying people’s transition from the most dangerous cooking fuel, killing millions a year, to the safest. And bring solar electricity, for the first time ever, to the Arhuaco people of Northern Colombia. Watch this 7-part series, based on and expanded from the celebrated global energy documentary Switch On- a spectacular, unexpected journey to know and understand the issues driving energy development around the world.

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Off-Grid Energy Solutions

Season 1 - Episode 8 - 0h 26m

Air Date

December 02, 2020

Overview

1 billion people still live without electricity, mostly in rural areas where the power grid doesn't reach. Dr. Scott Tinker goes to rural Kenya, to see how micro solar solutions- sold by local entrepreneurs, paid for with mobile phone banking- can bring light for literacy, water for farming, and cultural connection to off-grid families.