A villager in the Soroti area of Uganda is adapting the solar panels she uses.
Western media said that in Oddti, a small village in northern Uganda, the only entertainment after sunset was to listen to his father's storyteller, which was the only way for children to understand the outside world, but a few months ago they Added a new story to her family, bought a radio and a solar panel at home, put a solar panel outside the thatch door each day, and charged her home radio, cell phone and two LED lights.
This is a major shift for a village without access to electricity, according to the Spanish newspaper Pioneer, January 14. Now villagers can listen to the news, listen to music, read a book or work at night, and bring solar panels They could not have imagined life before.
Since the mobile phones are constantly popularized in Africa and have entered the lives of people in remote areas of Africa, another new revolution has brought about earth-shaking changes in the African people. The popularization of home solar power generation system is bringing light to every corner of Africa. The challenge is huge: With a population of 590 million people in sub-Saharan Africa unable to access electricity, most of them living in rural areas, statistics from the 'Illuminate Africa' program, sponsored by the World Bank and IFC, aimed at promoting the use of renewable energy, At least 23 million Africans have access to solar electricity in five years and are expected to expand to 250 million by 2030.
In downtown Kampala, changes have taken place since 2008. The first store selling home solar panels was opened here, and the same kind of stores are now all over the place, and every family business is booming, not only from rural areas but also from urban areas Because in Uganda it is often the case that power is cut off and a solar panel can be bought.
Reported that the store sales of solar panels known as the use of German technology, but read the instructions that can be found in fact made in China.China saw the business opportunities here, has become the leader in cheap PV products market in 2015 China's exports to Africa Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia have become the major markets for more than 205 million light-weight portable solar lights that cost less than two euros, according to the World Bank, in Kenya, where mobile payment is very common, among those living in areas with no electricity More than 30% of homes have a PV product.
