{"id":4368,"date":"2019-08-06T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"more-kenyans-see-the-light-with-solar-as-power-bills-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/06\/more-kenyans-see-the-light-with-solar-as-power-bills-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"More Kenyans See The Light With Solar As Power Bills Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By The Standard Digital<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the past three December holidays, Nicholas\nKyalo, a tenant in Kajiado town, has religiously carried his solar kit with him\nback to his village in Kibwezi for lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His village is yet to be connected to the\nnational power grid. But with portable solar equipment, his Christmas has\nalways been lit, so to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n35-year-old father of two bought the small solar kit in 2016 on a flexible\npayment plan from solar firm M-Kopa. It has a pair of light bulbs and a storage\nbattery, slightly larger than the size of a TV decoder. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/business\/article\/2001336940\/more-kenyans-see-the-light-with-solar-as-power-bills-soar\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Standard Digital For the past three December holidays, Nicholas Kyalo, a tenant in Kajiado town, has religiously carried his solar kit with him back to his village in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}