Before the earthquake struck on the evening of January 12, 2010, Alex Georges and his partner had been running a successful solar panel design and manufacturing company in Haiti, the only locally owned and operated one in the country. Business was faring well. Sales were growing steadily, as were the number of company employees. But today, Georges worries that foreign aid has distorted Haiti's small but growing renewable energy market. He believes that the presence of foreign solar companies, which has swelled in the wake of the earthquake, undermines Haiti's ability to compete globally—and ultimately, its hopes for economic stability.
Moments before the earthquake, Georges and his team were in the middle of a business meeting in Port-au-Prince. Then came the tremors. "It took about five seconds to realize it was a big one and that we were in danger inside the house," he says. Georges ran outside and saw that everything around him had collapsed to rubble. "It was a shock," he recalls. "Luckily, we didn't have any loss of life."
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