{"id":8860,"date":"2020-03-30T08:59:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:57","slug":"tanzania-greenlight-energises-1-5-million-people-with-solar-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/30\/tanzania-greenlight-energises-1-5-million-people-with-solar-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: Greenlight Energises 1.5 Million People With Solar Kits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The home solar kit supplier Greenlight Planet has passed the 1.5 million electrified people mark in Tanzania. This result should boost the company&#8217;s activities in several other African countries where it is present.<br>\nGreenlight Planet publishes its activity results in Tanzania. The solar home system provider says it has already installed solar home kits in 300,000 homes, benefiting 1.5 million people, mainly in rural Tanzania. This was achieved during the company\u2019s nine years of service in this East African country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greenlight Planet distributes its famous Sun Kings to households. It is a system consisting mainly of a solar panel, batteries for electricity storage and LED bulbs, which are energy efficient. Greenlight Planet\u2019s Sun King systems also have recharging spaces for mobile phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The importance of solar kits in Tanzania<br><\/strong>Less than 17 per cent of Tanzania\u2019s rural population has access to electricity, leaving more than 80 per cent of rural households in the dark at night. According to the Tanzania Rural Electrification Agency, the government plans to increase the rate of access to electricity for rural households to 50% by 2025 and 75% by 2033. \u201cGiven the size of the country and the dispersion of the population, off-grid energy is well placed to play an important role in providing rural people with access to electricity,\u201d explains Greenlight Planet. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrik21.africa\/en\/tanzania-greenlight-energises-1-5-million-people-with-solar-kits\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The home solar kit supplier Greenlight Planet has passed the 1.5 million electrified people mark in Tanzania. This result should boost the company&#8217;s activities in several other African countries where&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8861,"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-8860","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\/8860","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=8860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}