太阳能创新产品为肯尼亚居民提供廉价清洁能源（在线收听）

太阳能创新产品为肯尼亚居民提供廉价清洁能源

Gilbert Ondieki is installing a solar panel from M-Kopa on the roof of his shop in Kangemi, on the outskirts of Nairobi.

吉尔伯特·奥德克正在内罗毕康济米郊区自己商店的屋顶上安装M-Kopa公司的一块太阳能电池板。

He says having a steady supply of electricity has meant more sales, earning more cash for his family.

他表示稳定的电力供应就意味着更多的销售,为他的家人赚更多的钱。

“Mkopa Solar has really boosted my business because in the past when darkness set in I would close for the day, but now I'm able to work late into the night and close whenever I want to.”

“Mkopa太阳能电力公司确实使我的生意变好,因为过去天黑后我就得关门,但现在只要我想就能工作到深夜。”

M-Kopa, whose name comes from the Swahili word for "borrow," sells the solar kits for $35-and customers then pay 50 cents a day for a year, after which they own their systems.

名称出自斯瓦希里语“借”一词的M-Kopa太阳能电力公司的产品售价 35美元，而后客户需要每天为这个系统支付50美分。

The kit contains an 8 watt solar panel, two LED bulbs, a rechargeable flashlight, a phone charger and a rechargeable radio.

产品包括一个8瓦的太阳能电池板,2个LED灯泡,可充电手电筒、手机充电器及充电收音机。

MKOPA users pay using their mobile phones making it more efficient to track cost and use.

M-Kopa的用户通过手机使用及管理成本会更加有效。

Jesse Moore is M-Kopa's CEO.“In ten years the rest of the world will look at what leap-frogging technologies came out of Kenya and came out of East Africa and I think we will have a situation where this part of the world is the role model for others, going off the grid, harnessing the power of the sun and connecting people reliably, affordably and quickly in a way that's never been done before.”

M-Kopa的首席执行官杰西·摩尔说道:“10年后世界将会见证这种在肯尼亚出现的技术跨越，而后走向东非,我认为我们将会面临这里是其他地方榜样的情况,我们要摆脱输电线路,驾驭太阳的能量并以前所未有切实可行，惠及人民且迅速的方式将人们联系起来。”

And business is booming.

而他们的业务正蓬勃发展。

Gloria Luchidio is one of more than 200 M-Kopa customer care representatives helping people across East Africa with their solar energy systems.

格洛丽亚·卢克迪奥是为这种太阳能系统用户提供帮助超过200名 M-Kopa东非客服代表中的其中一人。

M-Kopa now has pay-as-you-go customers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

在肯尼亚,乌干达及坦桑尼亚都有M-Kopa的现收现付制客户。

It offers an alternative to traditional power companies such as in Kenya, where only four million households are connected to the national electricity grid in a country of 42 million.

这为肯尼亚等地区提供了相比传统电力公司的替代解决方案, 在这样一个拥有4200万人口的国家只有400万户家庭享有国家电网的电力。