PORT-AU-PRINCE — Rene Max Auguste says demand for solar panels at his store in the Haitian capital, Port au Prince, has soared over the past two years. The state power utility's inability to guarantee electricity, he says. "The situation is a failure of the state: a failure of the elite for the past 30 years," says Auguste. President Jovenel Moise took office three years ago promising to bring around-the-clock power to the poorest nation in the Americas. Instead, amid political turmoil and unrest, he has presided over the worst power outages in more than a decade.

Source: New York Times September 06, 2020 11:03 UTC