As a regular <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Power & Energy Magazine</i> reader, you may be wondering: why is an article about cutting, polishing, and selling gemstones being published in this magazine? The answer has several parts. Firstly, a high-margin business like cutting and polishing gemstones must have a highly reliable electricity supply; otherwise, production is shut down, and valuable revenue is lost. Secondly, in the future, gemstone cutting and polishing stations will be located in off-grid villages to provide employment, especially to the women who have traditionally not been employed by the mining industry. Thirdly, the profits from the sale of gemstones, after paying the cutters and polishers a fair wage, will be invested in the infrastructure in their villages. This infrastructure will create a village where all people have access to electricity, Internet, water, sanitation, health care, housing, transportation, education, jobs, and entrepreneurship.