Despite being the world's fifth largest producer of power, more than 400 million people in India continue to live without electricity.<br /><br />In Bihar province, where 80 million are left without power, the husks that coat and protect grains of rice are being used to power up to 400 homes at a time.<br /><br />An innovative technology that burns piles of rice husks in a gas chamber converts what would have otherwise been wasted into much-needed energy.<br /><br />The electricity produced from the husks is cheaper - sold for $3 per month, less than a quarter of the cost of government connections - and burns cleaner than kerosene.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports from Bihar province.
