Akon sends solar energy to Africa Bashny.Net

Today 1.3 billion people live without access to electricity, including many in Africa. 85% of Africa's power plants and power systems. Most people do not have access to the Internet or cell phones. They are completely cut off from the modern world, unable to exist beyond subsistence level and are not able to be part of a huge exchange of ideas made possible by the Internet.



 

Electricity produced using solar energy can change all of that. It does not need significant investments in utility grid or run centralized generating plants. This can be as a single multicanonical panel, which lights the lantern at night, charges your cell phone or laptop.

Hip-hop and R&B performer Akon was born in Missouri, American with Senegalese roots. He has a plan for the use of solar energy, he wants to give electricity to hundreds of millionas Africans.





"Africa needs to be sustainable for a long time and be a support for the rest of the world, and not Vice versa," he said in an interview. "A stable Africa should help the world."

He has launched an initiative called Akon Lighting Africa (ALA) in 2014, with the aim to provide electricity to the 600 million Africans who live without electricity. At the moment, the initiative helped to install solar street lights, micro-generators, docking station and home kits for 14 countries — Benin, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Namibia, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone.

Lack of energy "does not allow us to do what we need to do," he says. "In Africa there was not enough power to pull her back" to put Africa on a par with the rest of the world in terms of development, and solar energy is "the largest and fastest solution." He calls solar energy the "elementary step".





"We want to give people to develop their own capabilities," continued Akon. "But before something to give people, you need to first teach them this. Therefore, we have also developed a "school" which taught the technology of solar energy and its maintenance, so people will be able to create their own technology."

"Akon Lighting Africa teaches people the principles of solar power plants and technologies for the installation of arrays with the educational training program entitled Academy Solar (Solar Academy), which promotes entrepreneurship. The participation of the rest of the world is the key. Of course, everyone should do the Africans themselves, but the technology can be offered to the whole world."

Akon hopes to expand the initiative to additional 11 countries by the end of the year, and the whole of Africa by 2020. "We just want to be a generation of performers and truly provide results. And when you provide it, you improve the world and continue to work."

Energy is more than electricity. We are talking about political will and the ability to connect almost 15% of the world's population to the rest of humanity for the first time in history. First of all, we are talking about personal opportunity and personal dignity for hundreds of millions of people. published

P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©

Source: www.facepla.net/the-news/5132-солнечную-энергию-в-африку.html