How A Battery System In Malawi Solves More Than Blackouts

Lithium battery system about the size of a few shipping containers, installed near Lilongwe, Malawi.

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On a cloudy afternoon in Lilongwe, the sun disappears behind a bank of clouds, and with it goes a fifth of the country's electricity supply. That is what solar power does when nothing backs it up. For much of the past four years, the African nation of Malawi had nothing standing behind it. In January 2022, Tropical Storm Ana tore through the Kapichira Dam, ripping roughly 129 megawatts of hydropower off the national grid in a single stroke. What followed were blackouts stretching up to 18 hours a day—a gap that expensive diesel generators could not fill.

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For decades, we were told to choose low-fat dairy. New research says otherwise

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