Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Bringing Lebanon out of the dark, naturally

At his goat farm in the remote Bekaa Valley town of Qaa near the Syrian border, Hasan Istaytiyyah is enjoying a rare luxury in Lebanon: 24-hour electricity. For the past seven months, the house on his farm has been running on a solar-powered system that has replaced unreliable state-run electricity, which was provided for only six hours per day. He has even discarded his noisy, expensive and polluting generator. Istaytiyyah says his farm’s electricity is “better and cheaper than anywhere in Lebanon.

Ever since the 15-year Civil War ended in 1990, the country has faced daily power outages, which have gotten worse with time
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