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A year ago, no one living in Môle-Saint-Nicolas, Haiti, had electricity.
. . . By the spring of 2016, the town had a brand new grid, and
. . . it will soon run completely on solar and wind energy.

The company plans to get electricity to:
. . . . . . 300,000 people by 2017, and
. . . . . 1,000,000 people by 2018.

By connecting to a centralized source of power,
. . . the system makes renewable power about
. . . 33% cheaper than it would be in a typical micro-grid.

"All of the renewable energy generation, for
. . . 9 different towns is placed in one location.
. . . We're able to properly:
. . . . . . . operate, and
. . . . . . . have 24/7 maintenance staff in that one location rather than 9 different locations.
. . . It allows us to achieve lower per unit installed cost of solar."

10-23-2016 Source:  What is a Micro-Utility?