off-grid

Kerosene is expensive and toxic. Until recently, it was one of the few options available to millions of Africans who are off the grid. But now solar lights are bringing clean, safe, affordable lighting to these homes for the first time.

Three domestic Cape Town households are about to participate in a unique pilot project that will allow them to feed their excess electricity, created from renewable energy sources, back into the city's grid.
• SA becoming a renewable energy hub

Pay-as-you-go solar technology is making it possible for remote and off-grid communities in Africa to generate their own electricity, reducing the need for lighting practices, such as burning kerosene oil, that are harmful and dangerous.
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