Solar cells are light up rural Africa than 18 years of living with the condition of no power with his family in the small village Ndela, located 80 km east of the capital, Nairobi, Kenya, Wambua seems not have always only stop thinking about someday they can learn in the light of the electric lamp. Copyright: Waldo Swiegers the solar panels on the roof in the village many Ndela in Kenya. Fortunately, everything has changed changed since my mother is Rebecca registered installations with M-Kopa, a provider of solar systems based in Nairobi. the mother, 35, said she is paying 100 shillings equivalent to about $ 1 / day for the use of oil for lighting. But since the switch to solar energy, the cost spent her day costs about 42 shillings or about $ 0.41 / day. [Vu Phong SolarV supplement: $ 0.41 / 1 day x 365 days + $ 30 first payment = $ 179 for a full set of products in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are more expensive around $ 25] The solar panels sun sized laptop battery is only about one bar and can generate power of about 8W, enough to light two LED light bulb. M-Kopa are currently using technology to create solar panels cheap in a country where every 2 out of 3 people can not gain access to the national electricity grid. Until now, about 230,000 people have registered to buy the company's products. Customers will be installed after the company agreed to buy solar batteries. They need to transfer money to the account of the company through a money transfer service mobile phone. Without payment, the solar panels that users can buy will be locked and deactivated via the SIM card. The share of Julian Mitchell, chief executive of the credit department and call M-Kopa's capital, said: "A normal day, we sell about 500 units of the product". This figure shows the speed of product development is very fast and powerful company and also reflects the urgent needs of many people in here when there is no access to the light of civilization. Sentence Kenya it would certainly be a very effective case that Vietnam and other countries to study. When the project put the national grid to distant lands with many of today's EVN are still continue to be deployed, but also difficult due to the terrain and the people financing remains limited, we can fully apply the power supply form as introduced to many parts of unearned light the national grid.
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