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More East Africans turn to solar power

M-Kopa Solar managing director Jesse Moore and Safaricom chief executive officer Bob Collymore. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU

East Africans are increasingly using solar energy for lighting as companies scramble for a piece of the promising market. 

Even as a large number of East Africans rely on kerosene, batteries and candles for lighting, a Nairobi-based company with a presence in Uganda and Tanzania, has connected more than 140,000 homes in Kenya and 20,000 in Uganda and Tanzania to solar power in the past two years.

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