We recently looked at how distributed solar systems are enabling electromobility in rural Zimbabwe. Electric motorcycles and three-wheelers will transform rural communities and improve the lives of women and children in these communities. Several other energy storage as a service (SaaS) platforms are being planned to catalyze that industry, from startups such as betteries and Liquidstar.
Onsite solar PV generation is also valuable in places that have access to the utility grid but that grid is predominantly powered by coal, like in Australia and South Africa. The learning curve of photovoltaics, also sometimes known as Swanson's Law after Richard Swanson of SunPower, has shown that the prices of solar panels have come down by about 80% over the last 10 years. At current prices, it is usually cheaper to generate your own electricity using solar. If you go solar, then you could essentially have your own fuel station at home!
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