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More businesses, homes turn to solar energy to tame power costs

Charles Okoth Onyango, a farmer at Dala Rieko farm in Asembo bay Siaya county with the solar wheelbarrow panels used to bump water at the farm. PHOTO: COLLINS ODUOR

Something new is happening at London Distillers that has nothing to do with alcohol. Early this year, the wines and spirits distiller signed a contract with Solar Century to instal the largest solar roof in East Africa.

The Athi River-based firm currently spends up to Sh6 million on electricity bills a month. Installation of the panels is expected to begin in the last quarter of the year, and save the firm Sh450 million over the next quarter century after the 1 megawatt-generating roof is installed.

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