Electricity-starved Gazans turn to sun for help
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Electricity-starved Gazans turn to sun for help

A growing number of Gazans fed up with their erratic electricity supply are turning to solar power in an area where the sun shines for the vast majority of the year.
 

Nahed Abu Assi's farm has been bombed in each of the three Gaza wars since 2008 and like in the rest of the Palestinian enclave, he receives only a paltry amount of electricity each day.

With his chickens dying and the cost of using generators high, Assi now hopes to do as others have done in Gaza—if he can find a loan to pay for it: install solar panels.

[Full article here | photo by stichting kifaia]

Electricity-starved Gazans turn to sun for help

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