Using solar power for Kenyan flowers | Global Ideas

[@levison7935]

Hope other businesses can flourish in Africa by harnessing solar power. It’s one of their resources.

[@acacius9903]

It is always great to see women who have great businesses. Much respect to her.

[@silvialogan9226]

Using solar power is probably the smart way of growing plants properly and even healthier for the environment.

[@raoulfr]

Game changer for many countries.

[@matthewbaynham6286]

It's good to have a co2 neutral flower farm, but I still think having the flowers transported by air freight will add a lot of co2. I hope Airbus are working on that part of the problem.

[@io6027]

It is a lesser cost then that of maritime or freight. But still a supply chain needlessly complex, yes.

[@gjsoriano1]

Airbus have recently laid out plans to promote use of green hydrogen fuel to replace petroleum-based fuels.

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Kenya seems to have a lot of sun. I think solar panel works well there. But not here in northern England...

[@oxnyxws]

True but tidel power has been put into Scotland.

[@Skatted]

We can share the solar power around the world :)

[@pebre79]

I’m glad solar seems to be good for business. Nice

[@KJSvitko]

Solar power combined with battery storage is a great option. One thing people forget is that you don't need a gas backup generator. Many people install those and never think about a payback. There is none. With solar and batteries you save money every month and have backup power.

[@urbandiscipline8858]

Thanks to China for making solar panels affordable to the poor countries.

[@notjohnwick007]

Which country made the solar panels for this Kenya project? It's from Germany?

[@vortexknight6420]

Around 70% of the world's panel manufacturing comes from China in 2019 according to industry estimates. Probably no Change to now.

[@luislopez-fi8qi]

Please DW put back the old intro

[@TomTom-cm2oq]

The return on investment is NINE years??

[@martinwu2006]

I think so, the solar system price is much lower than before. This investment is popular here in China, most of the power is sold to grid. I have to say that, use German solar system, it takes 9 years to reture investment; use Chinese solar system, the time will be much shorter.

[@stepheng5866]

Well... do you like living on earth?

[@lordGalthran]

we always have solar energy until the end of the world

[@rosshoyt2030]

Haha but then no grid energy will work either. I'd think solar would be better than traditional power in that situation, unless nuclear winter

[@thnktank1]

Good news from Africa? What dimension is this?

[@PHlophe]

color me suprised.

[@thepeff]

I don't care what hydroponic gardeners say: if you get spider mites then you're opening up some chemicals

[@truthboom]

isn't africa already use solar panel 6 years ago

[@sobannasirali1822]

Ekulego