Mexico's New Wave of Rural Electrification
Air Date: Week of August 14, 1992
Bebe Crouse reports on the installation of a solar- and wind-powered electric system in a remote Mexican village. Mexico's electric company hopes the kinds of technology used in the village will help electrify the entire country within ten years — a process which the government estimates would take sixty years with conventional technology.
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