{"id":179759,"date":"2024-09-02T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambias-crippling-drought-creates-chance-for-solar-power-to-shine\/"},"modified":"2024-09-02T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:32:09","slug":"zambias-crippling-drought-creates-chance-for-solar-power-to-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambias-crippling-drought-creates-chance-for-solar-power-to-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia&#8217;s Crippling Drought Creates Chance for Solar Power to Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em> With a prolonged drought affecting the supply of hydroelectricity all over southern Africa, a growing number of people are turning to solar to fill the energy gap. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;We can spend up to 44 hours with power,&#8221; Kelly Huckaby tells RFI from the outskirts of Lusaka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Originally from the United States, he has been based in Zambia since 2010 and runs a Christian ministry that hosts camps and conferences for up to 200 children at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">A reliable supply of electricity is essential. But the drought that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409020117.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a prolonged drought affecting the supply of hydroelectricity all over southern Africa, a growing number of people are turning to solar to fill the energy gap. &#8220;We can spend up to 44 hours with power,&#8221; Kelly Huckaby tells RFI from the outskirts of Lusaka. Originally from the United States, he has been based in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00590842:5cb90c1a0e1746afecd56480de332f08:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,12844,14118,26773,4787,257,7047,11202,4631,254,881,8982],"class_list":["post-179759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chance","tag-creates","tag-crippling","tag-drought","tag-news","tag-power","tag-shine","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00590842:5cb90c1a0e1746afecd56480de332f08:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}