Research: Nigerian and Kenyan Farmers Can Be First Step to Making Rural Mini Grids More Profitable and Affordable
In Nigeria and Kenya, many small to medium farms and rural grain-milling businesses are not connected to the national electricity grid. They still use petrol or diesel generators for power. Energy, agriculture and development researchers Temilade Sesan, Lucy Baker and colleagues set out to discover how these agribusinesses could get electricity from renewable energy mini grids at a price that would make the mini grids commercially viable, affordable for the farmers, and able to provide an electricity supply for low-income rural households.
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Source: The Conversation (link opens in a new window)
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