Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa | Chinese panels are now so affordable that businesses and families are snapping them up, slashing their bills and challenging utilities.

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No longer do South Africans depend entirely on giant coal-burning plants that have defined how people worldwide got their electricity for more than a century. That’s forcing the nation’s already beleaguered electric utility to rethink its business as revenues evaporate.