This is how solar power helps countries deal with food price hikes

According to Euronews.green, this is why Lebanon entrepreneurs are switching from diesel-powered ovens to solar-powered ones, so that the people can afford buying the classic bread. Due to energy price hikes and limited food supplies, the price for a loaf of bread rose by as much as seven times in a month in Lebanon.

Last year we wrote about a team of scientists which aim to bring clean and reliable energy sources to off-grid communities in Africa and Asia. To do so, they will use a lead-battery electrolyser, which is supposed to be a fairly cost-effective way of implementing hydrogen-powered cookers.

Toufic Hamdan, the creator of a solar-powered oven system and founder of the startup Partners with Sun, already had his innovative solution implemented in a bakery located near Beirut.

Hitaf Ghazal, cofounder of Partners with Sun, said that "this oven will save bakery owners about 80 per cent of their monthly usage of diesel, and therefore it would reduce the price of the bread bundle that reaches the consumer."

Toufic Hamdan explains that the system could help bakeries save on some ten tons of diesel every month.

Wissam Shamseddine, owner of the bakery that uses the solar-powered system, said that "it saves on our production's diesel consumption and gives us better quality." This means that, if more solar-powered ovens are to be implemented, cost and emissions savings could get significant, while delivering better products for the consumers.

The founder of Partners with Sun said that "we aim, between now and 2030, to bury the last boiler operating on diesel or electricity in food and beverage production."