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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
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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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Updated 2/23/2021 11:18 AM
As the population increases across the globe, the demand for energy also increases, as does the need to find renewable forms of energy and reduce the planet s reliance on fossil fuels.
According to estimates, if the world does not do more to convert to the use of renewable energy sources, the world may deplete its supply of fossil fuels as soon as 2060 at the current rate of consumption.