Solar 殴打／砲列 力／強力にする takes up the 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 in Kenya
By Anthony Langat
NAIROBI, Oct 26 (Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎) - Staff of the International 中心 of Insect Physiology and 生態学 (ICIPE) don't worry too much about the たびたび（訪れる） 力／強力にする outages at their campuses. A bank of ディーゼル 発生させる人（物）s 確実にする that when 力／強力にする from the 国家の grid goes off, the centre's 研究 into insects, food and health is not 混乱に陥れる／中断させるd.
But the five 発生させる人（物）s at ICIPE's Homa Bay centre, on the shore of Lake Victoria in south-west Kenya, cost about $4,000 a year to 燃料 and 持続する - and they 与える／捧げる to 気候 change.
Now the campus is 始める，決める to 企て，努力，提案 別れの（言葉，会） to two of its five 発生させる人（物）s by the end of the year as a solar 殴打／砲列 system comes into 操作／手術 to 供給する electric 力／強力にする to the centre at night.
The system, which is 現在／一般に under construction, will use 144 殴打／砲列s to 蓄える／店 electricity 生成するd by 744 solar パネル盤s.
The 殴打／砲列s will 供給する up to five hours of 力／強力にする each night. After that, the centre will rely on electric grid 力／強力にする - or the three remaining ディーゼル 発生させる人（物）s in 事例／患者 of a 灯火管制／停電.
This is the first time that solar 殴打／砲列s have been 任命する／導入するd in a large 商業の 公共事業（料金）／有用性 in Kenya, によれば Solarcentury, the solar 力／強力にする company that is 任命する／導入するing them.
Solarcentury, whose parent company is based in the UK, is also 任命する／導入するing 3,460 solar パネル盤s at ICIPE's Nairobi campus. The Nairobi system is also d ue to come online by the end of the year.
Together, the two solar 殴打／砲列 systems, which cost a total of $2.5 million, will 生成する a 頂点（に達する） 生産（高） of 1,154 kilowatts.
Gatigwa Kimana, ICIPE's director of 財政／金融, said that the centre 手配中の，お尋ね者 to find a clean, reliable and renewable energy source as part of an 率先 開始する，打ち上げるd last year to use green energy and 保存する water.
ICIPE has been using ディーゼル 発生させる人（物）s as its only 力／強力にする backup since its inception 40 years ago.
"The costs of lost 適切な時期s in the event of a 力／強力にする 灯火管制／停電 is higher than the 通貨の costs of 購入（する）ing of ディーゼル," Kinama explained. "After a 実現可能 熟考する／考慮する was 行為／行うd, we decided on solar energy, in line with our philosophy to 保存する the 環境."
ICIPE hopes to 延長する its system at Homa Bay next year to 供給する all-night 力／強力にする from the solar 殴打／砲列s.
"にもかかわらず the high cost of 取り付け・設備, the use of solar systems with 殴打／砲列 貯蔵 is not only environmentally friendly but also economical in the long run," said Guy Lawrence, Solarcentury's East Africa director.
PARKING LOT SOLAR
Lawrence 公式文書，認めるd that since Solarcentury began operating in Kenya three years ago, its three other 法人組織の／企業の （弁護士の）依頼人s have chosen a 比較して cheaper hybrid system rather than 選ぶing for 殴打／砲列 貯蔵.
Hybrid systems 連合させる solar and other 力／強力にする sources the （弁護士の）依頼人 already is using. In the 事例／患者 of Garden City, a big 商店街 east of Nairobi, a solar パネル盤 system has been 統合するd with 力／強力にする from the 国家の grid and from ディーゼル 発生させる人（物）s.
The 商店街 誇るs the biggest solar car parking lot in East Africa, with 3,500 solar パネル盤s 任命する／導入するd on shade structures over parking spaces. The パネル盤s produce 915 kilowatts of 力／強力にする.
"The idea of 任命する／導入するing the solar パネル盤s on the rooftop is for practicality, whereby cars are 保護するd from rain and sun and other 環境の elements while 供給（する）ing 力／強力にする," said Lawrence.
The 商店街 now uses solar energy during the day and switches to the 力／強力にする from the 国家の grid at night.
Lawrence sees the market for solar パネル盤s and 殴打／砲列 systems growing after other 可能性のある 使用者s get a look at the 早期に 事業／計画（する）s.
"The level of 利益／興味 and the number of 契約s we are 調印 are growing exponentially," he said, with 利益／興味 from 商売／仕事s 含むing 農業の 生産者s and 製造業の 会社／堅いs.
Apart from the 私的な 部門, the 政府 is also taking strides to bring more solar 力／強力にする into the 国家の 力／強力にする grid. The 省 of Energy called for 提案s to 任命する／導入する solar systems with 殴打／砲列 貯蔵 早期に this year.
The 政府, through the 田舎の Electrification 当局, a public 会社／団体, has also begun building a 55-メガワット solar 力／強力にする 工場／植物 in sun-rich Garissa, in the north-east of the country.
(報告（する）／憶測ing by Anthony Langat; editing by James Baer and Laurie Goering :; Please credit the Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers 人道的な news, 気候 change, women's 権利s, trafficking and 所有物／資産／財産 権利s. Visit http://news.信用.org/気候)
