LED + solar energy: the hope of rural Africa
Every year, African households and small businesses spend upwards of $17 billion on lighting, dominated by fuel-based sources such as kerosene, a costly an inefficient alternative. But, despite these huge expenditures that many households spend as much as 30% of their disposable income on fuel-based lighting, consumers receive little value in return. 60% of the 1.6 billion without electricity are live somewhere in Africa.
The sunlight is free and inexhaustible. Africa is rich for energy source. Some rural African areas have no immediate hope of linking to their national electricity grid. But solar electricity is the hope for them.
CFLs are great and so are hybrid vehicles, but mainly because they, for the most part, make sense both environmentally and economically. LED will solve these problems and save energy too.
Solar power systems in the rural villages of Africa can be installed to bring electricity to the people there. If we combine these two elements: LEDs and solar power, we can partly solve the problem of electricity for remote and isolated homes in Africa. And in fact, LED and Solar power, will be the hope for rural Africa.
