Friday, May 13, 2011

On importation of Cheap Solar Equipment

The business page of Friday April 29, 2011 daily times, has a comment from Solair Corporation. Which attributes the importation of cheap materials to taking out of duty of solar equipment. The truth is, when the genuine is not available, people will still buy the good that is available.

The public should know this. Solair is too small to supply to the whole country genuine Solair equipment. What should necessarily be encouraged is the sensitization of the public what genuine solar equipment is, if macra, mbs cannot do this civil education alone, organizations live NICE have this commission to educate such issues to the nation. Such organization can train young unemployed youth through volunteerism, to do this civil education to the public as long as they have some allowances for upkeep than to have to steal or vend the same fake/cheap solar equipment.

If it is for Malawi, let us do this its for our own good.

It is not only cheap solar equipment, but there are a vast electronic equipment that it far less energy efficient being sold on the market that would render the Escom's Energy Efficient Lighting Project useless.

It is easier and cheaper to empower people with such knowledge so that they sort out the differences themselves, while at the same time, encourage even these youth getting loans in YDEF, to invest in solar equipment at all levels, training, supply and installation. Such youth are a treasure to our nation and would the government would do much good to continue to invest in educating and empowering even encouraging as many donors possible to train these youth without limit. Such aid is beneficial to our land.