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With over one billion homes in the world living off-grid, and over half a billion with poor grid, Governments and different levels of national and international organizations have been trying to electrify these homes with newer targets set every year. While rooftop solar was an obvious choice for powering such decentralized and difficult locations, this was not being implemented; DC power of the renewables and batteries was not directly exploited and converted to conventional AC power, resulting in large losses and inefficiencies.
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