Albanians Make Their Own Electricity
Frequent blackouts drive residents to buy their own generators to keep businesses and homes running.
You can smell newly baked bread and cookies throughout the store. Owners Luljeta and Vladimir Tani, in white, move briskly around the fluorescent lit room wrapping loaves in plastic and weighing out candies. Business is brisk.
You can smell newly baked bread and cookies throughout the store. Owners Luljeta and Vladimir Tani, in white, move briskly around the fluorescent lit room wrapping loaves in plastic and weighing out candies. Business is brisk.
In the afternoon sunlight outside, a grass-colored steel box hums. It is a $10,500 generator, worth every penny, because if a blackout hit, even for just five minutes, the lights, the blender, and the ovens inside the shop would stop working.