go solar
In the village of Martin Alonzo the prices of electricity just went crazy. They get electricity about 10 hours a day if lucky and They just raised the price 550% on some people. There is a neighbor of mine that has 4 light bulbs and a fridge they where getting charged 200 pesos per month and now they want 1,100 pesos this is not the only person the whole community is being over charged. Most of the families in that small community only have the basic to live on. Edenorte should be ashamed of themselves for ripping off the poor.
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This is also what the OP said about his village. Lots of months in SD, my electric bill is 1100 pesos, complete with fridge, tv, lights, computer, internet, and all those little lights that seem to stay on all the time........ So indeed it does seem that there is a problem here in the Campo.
Where is this village?
I know that there were a couple of NGO projects near the border that were getting solar panels on houses where were very basic. OK, so perhaps you could not run a fridge on them, but you could certainly run your lights and perhaps share a fridge. The panels cost 5000 pesos which of course was also a lot for the campesinos...
I saw one guy in Haiti that had a small panel set up in his village, a lakou, it is called there, where there was NO electricity. So he had a small solar panel from which he ran a system of charging cell phones. He could charge 10 at a time. From this, his cousin lived, and he paid rent to his uncle, and had already paid the entire cost of the solar panel.
There is business to be had here in solar panels.+