There was a recent TED talk (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/nandan_nilekani_s_ideas_for_india_s_future.html http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/nandan_nileka

There was a recent TED talk (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/nandan_nilekani_s_ideas_for_india_s_future.html http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/nandan_nilekani_s_ideas_f...) discussing how India is going to learn from how we set up our infrastructure, then come up with their own implementation suited for them and learning from things that went wrong here. Looks like their energy plan is to extensively deploy solar.