paineis solares em gazs por causa da crise

Gazans turn to solar energy amid fuel crisis

Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:57AM GMT

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Many people in the Gaza Strip have turned to solar power to overcome a severe fuel shortage caused by a crippling blockade imposed by the Israeli regime on the territory, Press TV reports.
People in the impoverished Palestinian enclave have been forced to live with daily power outages of up to 12 hours.
The power outages have affected homes, schools, and businesses as well as water and sanitation plants in Gaza.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Israel is to blame for the fuel shortage.
Hamas has also slammed Egypt for the destruction of tunnels used for bringing fuel into the blockaded Palestinian territory.
As the coastal Palestinian territory goes through its worst fuel shortage in its history, many people in the strip are beginning to see solar power as the only solution to the energy crisis.
By harnessing the energy of the sun that beams down on Gaza, most of the people are optimistic that they can overcome the energy crisis in the long run.

“We think the sun could be the biggest generator of electric power and we are aiming at the energy authority to make solar energy the source of 20 percent of our electrical power by 2020,” said Awni Naim, a Gaza official with the energy sector.

Solar energy panels have been installed on the roof of the children’s hospital in Gaza City in a project that was set up in January 2013 at the cost of $100,000. It is now providing 20 kilowatts of electricity per day.
The use of solar energy in Gaza is not limited to schools and hospitals and businesses. Individual families are also switching to solar energy.
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