Off grid solar power is strategically viable for most African residences while the grid supply goes for commercial activities.
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Like the kerosene lamp era where the poor were never expected to need more
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Mkopa in Kenya allows upgrades and purchase of electronics
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solar is modular and it's easy to expand to meet the needs
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A grid expands energy needs by integrating diverse power sources. By the way, modularity is not limited to solar. It's a design issue
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This young man was educated by candlelight. Now he wants a job in South Africa, with 15 million other working age unemployed.pic.twitter.com/XgksWB28Kk
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I was educated by a kerosene light. The people wanted more power to run tools, operate machinery and pump water
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In non-industrialized Pacific with 80% rural households domestic solar is springing up everywhere. Some power is better than no power.
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I had Africa in mind with immediate diverse needs, strong interest in industrialization and in need of a mix of options
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Can't it be part of the answer? Especially in rural areas?
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We must bear in mind the HUGE gulf between domestic consumption and an actual modern commercial /industrial economy.
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Doesn't work for infrastructure for development. We don't have "off-grid" telecoms for a good reason. People don't exist just to consume
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It's working in Australia. In remote locations particularly - Micro grids are the future.http://reneweconomy.com.au/emerging-power-microgrids-68438/ …
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They make sense in those conditions. Nobody is selling them as the answer to Australia's electricity needs. That is the difference
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I argued about this in Jan 2016http://trueafrica.co/article/solar-isnt-answer-africas-energy-needs/ …
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Africans need what makes Westerners rich: robust energy supplies, rule of law, certainty of property rights, honest government, free speech
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