"Nearly 500,000 households will benefit from solar home systems and mini-grids under the National Electrification Plan, with subsidies of up to 90 percent... Access to electricity from clean sources such as solar and small-scale hydropower is changing the centuries-old way of life in thousands of rural communities like this across Burma. But experts say unsupportive policies and a lack of political will are hampering the development of a commercially viable market in renewable energy. More than two-thirds of Burma?s 51 million people lack access to reliable, affordable electricity, mostly in rural areas. Yet successive governments have focused on large-scale hydropower, gas and coal, which critics say are environmentally destructive and costly..."