The territories of Faradje and Dungu (Haut-Uele) have been electrified for a 12 months by the solar energy plant put in by the Garamba Nationwide Park, famous the reporter for Radio Okapi. These two territories had by no means been electrified earlier than.
This solar energy plant is likely one of the revolutionary tasks carried out by the Nuru firm in 2021 and financed by the European Union.
Households benefited from free electrical energy for a 12 months. After this take a look at, a money energy prepayment system was put in.
In Faradje, for instance, lengthy earlier than the development of this solar energy plant in 2021, at dusk, the entire territory was plunged into darkness. It has due to this fact modified the lives of the inhabitants.
With a capability of 215 kilowatts, it now sells 30% of the electrical energy.
The whole lot works with this photo voltaic vitality which is akin to that produced by a hydroelectric plant.
Its institution has revolutionized the native financial system, mentioned Xavier Terenka, agent of Nuru.
“Now we have a voltage of 240 Volt. Now we have welding workshops which might be related to our community. There are even telecommunications corporations like Vodacom which eat our electrical energy, gasoline stations, fishmongers, bistros, and many others…”, he explains.
The Nuru firm that constructed this enterprise and likewise the one which runs it.
It subjected subscribers to 2 tariffs: 0.38 USD/kwh from 6 a.m. to six p.m. and 0.49 USD/kwh from 6 p.m. to six a.m.
However these Faradje subscribers informed Radio Okapi that Nuru must also set up pricing in response to the forms of subscribers.
