Lebanon's “solar revolution" is anything but. It is unfolding not as a collective action, but as a hyper-individualized, privatized free-for-all shopping spree, leaving behind all those who cannot afford it and creating a looming waste crisis.
  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    What is this article trying to get at? It sounds like it’s a good thing that Lebanese people are owning their own means of generating clean energy and although it sucks that some are not able to afford to use solar it seems they were unable to afford diesel as well.

    Not everything is a crisis. The author seems worried that the world will flood with used solar panels in a decade and labels this a “crisis” but we produce worse things in larger amounts and we manage to disposable of those things.

    My takeaway is that the government needs to hurry up and process those loans or they should build a solar farm and run electricity to peoples homes.

    • Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      the government needs to hurry up and process those loans or they should build a solar farm and run electricity to peoples homes.

      This is the central problem for the authors. Through a clientilist network the government gave up its energy sector to enrich the owners of private generators who offer their services on a basis of subscription. With the rise of renewable energy, individuals took the matter into their own hands by installing solar panels. As the article states, the lack of proper legislation accomodating this technology renders the solar farms you’re speaking of are legally unfeasible. And if the government wants to preserve the private interests of generator owners, the situation may as well stay like that.