00:00Cheap fabric from China is closing down Kenya's textile mills.
00:04This is the answer one of the country's oldest cotton factories has come up with.
00:08At Tika Cotton Mills, solar power is helping to keep costs down,
00:12reducing the price of a meter of fabric by around 25%.
00:16The Kenyan manufacturer can now compete with imports from China.
00:20Innovative financing models make solar more accessible.
00:24New lithium batteries last longer, store more energy,
00:27and keep factories like Tika running after sunset.
00:30Solar is a first step towards creating more sustainable cotton textiles made in Kenya.
