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"Ismet Booley, a dentist in Cape Town, had a serious problem a few years ago.
Patients showed up for appointments, only to find the power had gone out.
No power meant no X-rays, no fillings, no root canals. “I just couldn’t work,”
Dr. Booley said.
South Africans like Dr. Booley have found a remedy for power cuts that have
plagued people in the developing world for years. Thanks to swiftly falling
prices of Chinese made solar panels and batteries, they now draw their power
from the sun.
These aren’t the tiny, old-school solar lanterns that once powered a lightbulb
or TV in rural communities. Today, solar and battery systems are deployed
across a variety of businesses — auto factories and wineries, gold mines and
shopping malls. And they are changing everyday life, trade and industry in
Africa’s biggest economy.
This has happened at startling speed. Solar has risen from almost nothing in
2019 to roughly 10 percent of South Africa’s electricity-generating capacity."
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