By Ross Brooks / Soucre: Inhabitat

Solar

Kenya recently laid out an ambitious plans to construct nine solar power plants at a cost of $1.2 billion, with the hope that they will provide more than half the country’s electricity by 2016. The country’s government put up half of the investment money, while private partners contributed the rest. Initial design stages of this impressive undertaking are almost complete, and construction is expected to begin before the end of the year.

Cliff Owiti, a senior administrator at the Kenya Renewable Energy Association, talked about how solar compares with alternative energy sources. “The costs related with hydro electricity are very high, considering they are influenced by the low water levels in major supply dams,” he said. “With high investments in solar, we will witness almost no blackouts and power charges will reduce because electricity will be in high supply.”

Via The Guardian
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