{"id":15667,"date":"2018-01-06T07:05:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T07:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdas.org\/?p=15667"},"modified":"2018-01-06T07:05:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T07:05:45","slug":"m-payg-the-danish-solar-firm-has-plans-to-open-up-shop-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/2018\/01\/06\/m-payg-the-danish-solar-firm-has-plans-to-open-up-shop-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"M-PAYG The Danish Solar Firm Has Plans To Open Up Shop In Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"M-PAYGA Danish solar power firm will be setting up shop in Nairobi which will tap a dozen Kenyans to drive its operations from next month, expanding the list of multinationals that have plugged into the local market.<\/p>\n

M-PAYG, which already is present in neighbouring Tanzania, said it was eyeing opportunities presented by Kenya\u2019s plan of connecting all homes to electricity in the next three years.<\/p>\n

The firm will supply pay-as-you-go solar kits where clients pay for use of the kits until the full cost of the equipment is recovered and its ownership transferred to the user.<\/p>\n

The company founder Asger Trier said \u201cWe are very interested in the Kenyan market, partly because of the government\u2019s 100 percent electrification target by 2020 with off-grid solar energy solutions being a big part of the picture,\u201d<\/p>\n

The government has set a universal electricity access target of 2020, to be achieved through a combination of increased connectivity of homes to the national grid and off-grid solar power solutions for remote villages, largely by private investors.<\/p>\n

Solar equipment is exempt from tax as part of government\u2019s incentive to spur the sector, seen to provide the country with the shortest route towards 100 percent electrification rate.<\/p>\n

About a third of the population is cut off the main power grid in a country where electrical connections are done by a single distributor, government-owned Kenya Power, making the process slow and expensive.<\/p>\n

The Danish firm now joins a growing list of multinationals that have made Nairobi their regional hubs for solar power including those from the US, the UK, Germany and France.<\/p>\n

M-PAYG sources its solar panels and backup batteries from China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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