<a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060026477" rel="nofollow">http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060026477</a><p>"Greenpeace installed a solar microgrid system in Dharnai, but villagers soon learned that it couldn’t handle the load for basic household chores like cooking and ironing."
some areas in many places have high cloud levels for all or part of the year. Thus they are less suitable for solar.
That said, large areas of India and many coutries are suitable for solar, build it, maintain it and get 50 years out of it