Remote villages to get electricity

BENGKULU, Bengkulu: As many as 620 units of domestic solar system (SHS) equipment will be installed in dozens of remote villages across Bengkulu province this year to provide them with an electricity supply, an official said on Saturday.

Deputy head of the Bengkulu energy and mineral resources office Zulkifli Abdullah said the equipment was given as assistance from the Technology Assessment and Application Agency (BPPT) and the central government.

Among the villages to receive the SHS would be those on Enggano island, North Bengkulu regency, where the already installed equipment was damaged in an earthquake on June 4, 2000, he added. --Antara