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Solar power brings end to energy poverty: throughout the continent lack of reliable power is badly affecting peoples' quality of life. Health, social activities, commerce and education are all suffering but, says Alan Hurst, the use of solar power could bring about dramatic improvements.(Power Supply)
IN HIS BOOK The End of Oil, Paul Roberts writes that: "Energy poverty is the biggest thing holding back rises in living standards". We, collectively, need to answer four questions in order to understand how to work toward the alleviation of energy poverty.
Question one: what is the most efficient, least costly means of distributing electricity in rural Africa?
Answer: solar power.
Africa has two energy problems: there are many millions of people who have no grid extended to them, and won't have in the foreseeable future, and the energy production in most countries is insufficient to meet the demand of those already on the grid, let alone those ...
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