{"id":171,"date":"2015-12-15T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T23:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=171"},"modified":"2015-12-15T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:04:05","slug":"nigeria-is-looking-to-solar-energy-to-solve-off-grid-power-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/nigeria-is-looking-to-solar-energy-to-solve-off-grid-power-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria is looking to solar energy to solve off-grid power problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hopes to reach a million homes<\/h2>\n<p>Nigeria is tackling an old problem, a chronic shortage of power supply, with a new solution &#8212; utilizing advances in solar energy technology.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity problem <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/422357\/charted-how-electricity-problems-are-limiting-growth-in-many-african-countries\/\" title=\"are limiting growth in many African countries\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>are limiting growth in many African countries<\/strong><\/a> and Nigeria is no exception &#8212; up to 90 million in Nigeria live without power.<\/p>\n<h2>Focus is on off-grid homes<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightingafrica.org\/\" title=\"Lighting Africa Project\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lighting Africa Project<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; a new initiative focused on helping people across Africa accessing better quality, affordable, clean lighting &#8212; will target homes in Nigeria that do not currently have access to the national grid and are largely without power.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nigeria is betting on solar power to reach a million homes without access to the grid <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JmTQVLJdLQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/JmTQVLJdLQ<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qzafrica\">@qzafrica<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Quartz (@qz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qz\/status\/676461806185934848\">December 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/573325\/nigeria-is-betting-on-solar-power-to-reach-a-million-homes-without-access-to-the-grid\/\" title=\"Quartz\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Quartz<\/strong><\/a>, Nigeria will be taking various steps in the near future to reduce &#8220;dependence on kerosene lamps and gasoline-powered generators which pose various health and environmental risks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These efforts are in line with the recent, historic <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/572572\/the-paris-climate-change-deal-has-been-unveiled\/\" title=\"climate change agreement\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>climate change agreement<\/strong><\/a> reached in Paris by a collection of world leaders just days ago.<\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/573325\/nigeria-is-betting-on-solar-power-to-reach-a-million-homes-without-access-to-the-grid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Quartz<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria is tackling an old problem, a chronic shortage of power supply, with a new solution &#8212; utilizing advances in solar energy technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,25,26,6],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar","tag-africa","tag-nigeria","tag-off-grid","tag-solar-power"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}