Switch On: The Series (2024)

Visit the Maasai savannah of Kenya, Africa’s largest slum and its newest hydroelectric dam. Journey into the coal mines and power plants of growing Vietnam. Cross Nepal with an environmental health scientist, studying people’s transition from the most dangerous cooking fuel, killing millions a year, to the safest. And bring solar electricity, for the first time ever, to the Arhuaco people of Northern Colombia. Watch this 7-part series, based on and expanded from the celebrated global energy documentary Switch On- a spectacular, unexpected journey to know and understand the issues driving energy development around the world.

Switch On: The Series

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Modern cooking fuels

  • 1x2

    Urban grid expansion

  • 1x3

    Developing on coal

  • 1x4

    Hydropower in africa

  • 1x5

    Off-grid solar, part 1

  • 1x6

    Off-grid solar, part 2

  • 1x8

    Off-grid energy solutions

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