{"id":657334,"date":"2026-01-05T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657334"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:41:06","slug":"cheap-solar-is-powering-africas-growth-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cheap-solar-is-powering-africas-growth-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap solar is powering Africa\u2019s growth story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: 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. \u201cI just couldn\u2019t work,\u201d Booley said.South Africans like 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.<\/p>\n<p>These aren\u2019t the old-school lanterns but solar and battery systems that are deployed across a variety of businesses \u2014 auto factories and wineries, gold mines and shopping malls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: 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. \u201cI just couldn\u2019t work,\u201d Booley said.South Africans like 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\u2019t the old-school lanterns but solar and battery systems that are deployed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}