Seck says engineers are trying to combine solar power with the national electricity provider, Senelec. That is already part of a law that is being drafted to allow people to sell back their excess solar power to Senelec. Seck says the government's goal is for solar power to produce 60 percent of all household energy.
Eyal Ben-Yaacov from the Israeli firm AMN Sun Solar says solar power allows people outside Senelec's national electricity grid to have power sooner, much as cellular phones have connected villages that are still waiting for landlines.
“The problem here in Africa is the grid. And when you take an off-grid system and you bring it much faster, much cheaper to the countryside to the villages, this is something that would take years and years and years to do with the grid,” said Ben-Yaacov.
Improving daily lives
Seck says solar power can rapidly improve the daily lives of the Senegalese people.
Seck says the government is asking everyone in Senegal to be inspired by the Isreali project which promotes a new type of housing in which a big part of the energy used is generated by solar power.
Behar says renewable energy is essential to meeting the challenges of global climate change. “It's a collective effort. It is in our hands the possibility to help and to protect our environment. If we don't do it now, it will be a disaster. Senegal and the Sahel countries in Africa suffer a lot from desertification, from deterioration of soil of land of climate change. If we don't take immediate action now, there will be a big disaster for these parts of Africa,” said Behar.
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