Yup. I just read about 20W services somewhere in south east Asia. Yes, twenty watts! Enough to run one short flourescent tube.
A friend of mine is from China. He was about 15 years old in 1970 there, and the communists there decided to ship all the city teenagers out to rural farming areas so they could learn about farming. Part of their "Cultural Revolution". But my friend from Shanghai was the only one in some rural village a few hundred miles north of North Vietnam who knew anything about electricity. The village was powered by a small hydroelectric dam and every house had one ~15W light bulb. No kilowatt-hour meters, but you'd catch flak if your house was more lit up than most others. My friend was put in charge of this power system, maintaining it and doing wiring. No NEC there! He thus didn't have to work in rice farm swamps filled with alligators or who knows what. People there had a habit of hanging their wash on the wires! I think he said it was a 220V system.
