Government to crackdown on fake solar dealers

Daily Monitor
Thursday April 22 2021
Solar panels in Kuru market, Yumbe District, in March 2019. Government has announced a crackdown on fake solar products. PHOTO | RACHEL MABALA
Summary
Background. Some of the requirements in the new standards for solar products include truth in advertising, health and safety, lumen maintenance (lamp brightness) quality and durability, and customer information must be provided. Government says substandard solar products on the market are derailing the government’s Vision 2040 target of achieving universal access to electricity.
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Traders dealing in solar products have appealed to the government to compensate them for the substandard products it has banned from the market.

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