{"id":955,"date":"2019-02-15T11:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/?page_id=955"},"modified":"2019-03-06T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:47:10","slug":"the-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/the-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Power &#8211; no development!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/map-off-grid-areas.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"871\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/map-off-grid-areas.png 871w, https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/map-off-grid-areas-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/map-off-grid-areas-768x294.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the \u201cWorld Bank\u2019s Sustainable Energy for All\u201d database, 67% of East-African countries have no or poor access to electricity. Next, to these houses, there can be community owned PV installations or micro-grids with surplus energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">STANDARD SOLUTIONS are small solar lamps, kerosene lamps, candles, charcoal, lead-acid batteries and\/or diesel. KEROSENE is costly, harsh to the environment (2.4kg CO2 and 58.5g black carbon\/liter) and dangerous to health\/safety. BATTERIES discarded poisoning the environment, leading to groundwater and crop contamination. Pay-As-You-Go SOLAR SYSTEMS are deployed in lease-to-own models and requiring the connection of own-brand appliances. NONE of these systems support the overall long-term goal to give access to public grid-connected power by setting up micro-grids in rural areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is a great need for a more durable and environmentally friendly solution &#8211; which is also economically available &#8211; and this is where Peoples Portable Power comes in.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/the-solution\/\">See our solution &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Power &#8211; no development! According to the \u201cWorld Bank\u2019s Sustainable Energy for All\u201d database, 67% of East-African countries have no or poor access to electricity. Next, to these houses, there can be community owned PV installations or micro-grids with surplus energy. STANDARD SOLUTIONS are small solar lamps, kerosene lamps, candles, charcoal, lead-acid batteries and\/or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/955\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pp-power.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}