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When power goes out in the rural town of Soroti in eastern Uganda, store manager Hussein Samsudin can only hope it won't go on so long it spoils his fresh goods.
Another shop owner, Richard Otekat, 37, has to pay a neighbour hourly to use his generator during blackouts as he can't afford to buy one himself, while others simply go without.
However residents of the town, surrounded by thatched huts, rivers and grasslands, hope a new solar plant, which went into operation last week, will bring an end to their electricity woes.
The $19 million (18-million euro), 33-acre solar plant—the first of its kind in East Africa—can produce 10 megawatts of power that is fed into Uganda's national power grid.
The project is crucial as Uganda seeks new ways to bring electricity to the 80 percent of its 40 million-strong population that does not have access to power.
Mud hut, solar panels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @02:54PM
nothing is going to happen in africa if they cannot learn to build all the shit themselves.
leap frog you say?
thats jumping over a generation of technolgy that most certainly contributed to the next one.
if you don't know how to build and maintain the previous generation of shit then most certainly you will
not build and maintain a rocket to mars or a fusion reactor in africa or the leap-frog tech(*).
then again, this doesnt just apply to africa ... but to
individual humans also:"my computer is not working?" "did you turn it on?"
(*) unless they (U.N. and feel-good-people) send a star trek replicator
with enough built-in intelligence to replicate near-broken parts of itself.