CARBON COMMENTARY NEWSLETTER
(23 July 2017 Subscribe at www.carboncommentary.com)
Solar in Africa. BBOXX said it had signed a deal in the small West African country of Togo to provide up to 300,000 off-grid kits. 10,000 will be installed in the next year giving light, phone charging, TV and radio to unelectrified rural households. 66% of Togo’s adults have mobile phones and can use BBOXX’s pay-as-you go system. The government said it was sponsoring the BBOXX project partly to increase the takeup of mobile money systems. Another indication of the close link between PV, the mobile phone and online payments in Africa.Now if only that nice Mr Musk or even our Christine Le G. could dig their hands into baggy pockets and provide a few (Ever)readies for storage we would all get along just fine!
(Could you bring that light over here, I can hardly see the hand behind my back it is so cloudy and dull...Ed)
Summertime and the lighting is easy!
