Sentence:  [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy <WSD>users</WSD> of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.