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SEED - Small Solutions Energy Enterprise Development

[caption id=“attachment_434” align=“alignright” width=“150”]Potential entrepreneurs checking out the Sun King solar lamp[/caption] Access to electricity in Uganda is limited for most of the population. The Ugandan census of 2002 reported that 7.7% of households used electricity for lighting (37% of urban households and 2.6% of rural households) this was up from 5.6% in 1991. In contrast, 74.8% of households (33.3% of urban and 88.2% of rural) were using “tadooba”, a form of paraffin candle, for lighting