How did I get into solar power? In 2015, during my Postdoc in Pretoria, I traveled to Zimbabwe and spent a few weeks there. That was the time when Zimbabwe was experiencing its worst ever period of electricity rationing, which is infamously known as load-shedding in this part of the world. The utility company would switch off power from about 5am to 11pm every day in most parts of the country as demand was way higher than the output from their aging coal power plants as well as the contribution the hydro power station at Kariba. Yes, that was over 18 hours without electricity every single day! This was a terrible experience.
