Hussein Shaker sat outside of his small shop in the Azmi neighbourhood of Tripoli, surrounded by solar panels of all sizes that were on sale. The 65-year-old engineer returned to Tripoli from Kuwait several years ago and opened up his store in 2015 but had a hard time making many sales as solar technology was relatively unknown in the city at the time. “It was only natural for people to find a new alternative given the high price of paying for a private generator subscription and the government’s inability to provide more than a couple of hours of electricity per day” “Before the crisis, when …