Clean Tech News & Views: EVs, Solar Energy, Batteries
About a decade ago, looking around Zimbabwe and a lot of other African countries, I used to see a lot of barriers holding back large-scale adoption of rooftop solar for most homes and small businesses. The key barriers were:
Small pool of accredited solar installers, making it difficult to find credible installation partners for your project.For solar to really take off, I thought it needed to become almost like a commodity — easy to find, easy to finance, and easy to get professionally installed hassle free, kind of like when you go to a large department store or furniture store to get a washing machine, a fridge, or a TV.
The tremendous progress in the solar and battery storage industry has resulted in an incredible reduction in the prices of solar panels and battery storage. Back then people were getting lead-acid batteries with a shorter lifecycle for a whole lot more money! Now they get a 5 kWh LFP battery with a much longer lifecycle for a lot less money. How cool is that!
The other family got a similar sized package installed at their house and also went through a similar frictionless process, but this was not tied to an employee programme at work. They got their solar from one of Zimbabwe’s largest. When I heard about this, I immediately went to one of these stores to check out how it works.
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