Bara Kilimandang stands at the door of his house whose electricity comes from solar energy in Walatungga on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) Contact online >>
Bara Kilimandang stands at the door of his house whose electricity comes from solar energy in Walatungga on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Antonius Makambombu, a worker of Sumba Sustainable Solutions performs maintenance work on a solar panel on the roof of a customer''s shop in Laindeha village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Working with international donors to help subsidize the cost, the company provides imported home solar systems, which can power light bulbs and charge cellphones, for monthly payments equivalent to $3.50 over three years. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Antonius Makambombu, right, a worker of Sumba Sustainable Solutions demonstrates to villagers how a solar panel lamp works in Ndapayami village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Monday, March 20, 2023. Working with international donors to help subsidize the cost, it provides imported home solar systems, which can power light bulbs and charge cellphones, for monthly payments equivalent to $3.50 over three years. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Antonius Pekambani stands near the control console for the solar panel unit installed at his house in Ndapayami village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Monday, March 20, 2023. "I couldn''t really study at night before," said Pekambani, a student in Ndapaymi village, east Sumba. "But now I can." (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Villagers uses their mobile phones outside house whose electricity comes from solar panel in Ndapayami village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Monday, March 20, 2023. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live in communities without regular access to power, and off-grid solar systems like these are bringing limited access to electricity to places like these years before power grids reach them. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A boy plays near houses powered by solar energy in Walatungga on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live in communities without regular access to power, and off-grid solar systems like these are bringing limited access to electricity to places like these years before power grids reach them. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Bara Kilimandang shows corn he ground using a grinder powered by solar energy at his house in Walatungga on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. In Indonesia''s far-east island, off-grid solar is lighting up lives for residents still living out of reach of the country''s national electricity provider. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Children play near solar panels on the roof of house in Walatungga village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live in communities without regular access to power, and off-grid solar systems like these are bringing limited access to electricity to places like these years before power grids reach them. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Tamar Ana Jawa is illuminated by a solar-powered light as she weaves a traditional cloth at a neighbor''s house in Laindeha village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Before electricity came to the village a bit less than two years ago, the day ended when the sun went down. Villagers in Laindeha, on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia, would set aside the mats they were weaving or coffee they were sorting to sell at the market as the light faded. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A husband and wife sort corns in their house whose electricity comes from solar energy in Ndapayami village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Monday, March 20, 2023. Before electricity came to the village a bit less than two years ago, the day ended when the sun went down. Villagers in Laindeha, on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia, would set aside the mats they were weaving or coffee they were sorting to sell at the market as the light faded. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Nelce Kaitaleper, left, and her son Alfred stands near an unfinished solar panels installation at their house in Laindeha village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live in communities without regular access to power, and off-grid solar systems like these are bringing limited access to electricity to places like these years before power grids reach them. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Imelda Pindi Mbitu, right, sits next to one of her of five children at the entrance of her house as a solar panel is seen on its roof in Walatungga on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. For years she would have to manually pound the kernels and beans between two rocks for hours at a time, now she uses a solar-powered machine. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Bara Kilimandang looks up at a light bulb powered by solar energy at his house in Walatungga on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live in communities without regular access to power, and off-grid solar systems like these are bringing limited access to electricity to places like these years before power grids reach them. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A man smokes cigarette inside a local shop whose electricity comes from solar energy in Laindeha village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live in communities without regular access to power, and off-grid solar systems like these are bringing limited access to electricity to places like these years before power grids reach them. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
In Indonesia''s far-east island of Sumba, off-grid solar is lighting up lives for residents still living out of reach of the country''s national electricity provider. (May 13) (AP Video by Victoria Milko, Produced by Teresa de Miguel)
Bara Kilimandang stands at the door of his house whose electricity comes from solar energy in Walatungga on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. In Indonesia''s far-east island, off-grid solar is lighting up lives for residents still living out of reach of the country''s national electricity provider. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
LAINDEHA, Indonesia (AP) — As Tamar Ana Jawa wove a red sarong in the fading sunlight, her neighbor switched on a light bulb dangling from the sloping tin roof. It was just one bulb powered by a small solar panel, but in this remote village that means a lot. In some of the world''s most remote places, off-grid solar systems are bringing villagers like Jawa more hours in the day, more money and more social gatherings.
Before electricity came to the village a bit less than two years ago, the day ended when the sun went down. Villagers in Laindeha, on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia, would set aside the mats they were weaving or coffee they were sorting to sell at the market as the light faded.
A few families who could afford them would start noisy generators that rumbled into the night, emitting plumes of smoke. Some people wired lightbulbs to old car batteries, which would quickly die or burn out appliances, as they had no regulator. Children sometimes studied by makeshift oil lamps, but these occasionally burned down homes when knocked over by the wind.
Antonius Makambombu, a worker of Sumba Sustainable Solutions performs maintenance work on a solar panel on the roof of a customer''s shop in Laindeha village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
For Jawa, it means much-needed extra income. When her husband died of a stroke in December 2022, Jawa wasn''t sure how she would pay for her children''s schooling. But when a neighbor got electric lighting shortly after, she realized she could continue weaving clothes for the market late into the evening.
"It used to be dark at night, now it''s bright until morning," the 30-year old mother of two said, carefully arranging and pushing red threads at the loom. "So tonight I work to pay for the children."
Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live in communities without regular access to power, and off-grid solar systems like these are bringing limited access to electricity to places like these years before power grids reach them.
Some 775 million people globally lacked access to electricity in 2022, according to the International Energy Agency. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are home to some of the largest populations without access to electricity. Not having electricity at home keeps people in poverty, the U.N. and World Bank wrote in a 2021 report. It''s hard for very poor people to get electricity, according to the report, and it''s hard for people who don''t have it to participate in the modern economy.
Tamar Ana Jawa is illuminated by a solar-powered light as she weaves a traditional cloth at a neighbor''s house in Laindeha village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Villagers uses their mobile phones outside house whose electricity comes from solar panel in Ndapayami village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Monday, March 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Indonesia has brought electricity to millions of people in recent years, going from 85% to nearly 97% coverage between 2005 and 2020, according to World Bank data. But there are still more than half a million people in Indonesia living in places the grid doesn''t reach.
While barriers still remain, experts say off-grid solar programs on the island could be replicated across the vast archipelago nation, bringing renewable energy to remote communities.
"Off-grid solar there plays an important role in that it will deliver clean electricity directly to those who are unelectrified," said Daniel Kurniawan, a solar policy analyst at the Institute for Essential Services Reform.
A boy plays near houses powered by solar energy in Walatungga on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
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