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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Replying to @calestous @TheBTI and
You need more you pay more, depending on your need, availability and affordability.
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Replying to @EngrDifa @calestous and
Your affordability changes when you have employment in an industrialising economy and that takes large scale reliable power.
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Replying to @BNW_Ben @calestous and
Fine! Then you scale up to the grid if available. But there has to be a provision for less income earners and remote areas.
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The aspirations of low-income earners are not to be locked in the kerosene lamp mentality. They are as ambitious as they're dignified
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Replying to @calestous @BNW_Ben and
A country with limited generation capacity should channel most of her grid power for commercial use for the overall growth of the economy.
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Replying to @EngrDifa @calestous and
Solar power projects should be sustained off grid for urban low energy consumption residentials and remote areas.
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Do you then rule out feed-in options?
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Replying to @calestous @BNW_Ben and
Of course not! But, only when basic needs are met and progress made eventually.
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That was one of the "appropriate technology" premises. It failed spectacularly. Repeating it won't deliver different outcomes
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