Ten panels at the Boluo Temple provide power for the monks, as well as a ginger cat named Flower. Read more at straitstimes.com.
YUNNAN, China – It takes three hours of hiking along rock stairs and muddy walkways to reach Boluo Temple in the Chinese city of Dali, where by some accounts monks have lived since as early as the Tang Dynasty.
“We never bought electric appliances before, and cooked and boiled water using firewood,” said Ming Jing, a 32-year-old junior monk at the temple. “This is a great improvement of convenience for our lives here.” During the winter, temperatures can plunge below 0 deg C in the mountain monastery, located about 2,700m above sea level, making nights especially tough to bear.
For the 1.2 million people that were still living off-grid in the early 2010s, China invested 4 billion yuan between 2013 and 2015 to build over 670 standalone solar power plants and 350,000 home photovoltaic systems, according to the National Energy Administration. A study on the solar poverty-alleviation programme, published in 2020, found the installations have raised disposal income per capita for beneficiaries by about seven to eight per cent.
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