Grand Theft Solar

After years of slow growth in solar use, a rash of solar panel theft on five continents suggests that the alternative power source may finally be catching on.

JANUARY 5, 2009

Lincoln Dahl, managing director of a company that markets alternative energies to African businesses, recently stepped into a used solar panel shop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He had come in to scope out his competition's wares. A few of the shop's solar panels looked stolen, still bearing the nameplates of their original owners. "Theft is a problem," Dahl says. "We...

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 SUBJECTS: ENERGY, DEVELOPMENT