Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus is one in all many South Africans who’ve turned to photo voltaic power to keep away from the frustrations of load shedding.
This comes after power provider Eskom carried out scheduled blackouts final weekend following the failure of a number of energy stations.
RASSIE TELLS SOUTH AFRICANS TO INVEST IN SOLAR ENERGY
In a tweet on Friday, 28 February, an excited Rassie Erasmus posted: “Recreation-changer! Lights on, TV on and frustrations gone”.
The Springboks coach was referring to his just lately put in photo voltaic panels, which had offered energy to his dwelling regardless of the rollout of load shedding.
Rassie isn’t the one high-profile South African who makes use of photo voltaic power.
In 2023, rapper Cassper Nyovest bragged about putting in the system on each his Johannesburg and Cape City properties.
“Bye-bye load shedding,” he bragged.
A 12 months earlier than, Pearl Thusi revealed that she, too, had gone off the grid.
And so did musician The Kiffness, who tweeted about spending over R130 000 to put in a primary photo voltaic power system in his Cape City dwelling.
AN INCREASED DEMAND
Africa Photo voltaic Trade Affiliation (Afsia) experiences that South Africa consumes greater than 50% of photo voltaic power on the African continent.
The experiences additionally point out that in 2023, 79% of all new methods have been put in on residential and business buildings in South Africa.
But it surely doesn’t come low cost – a house photo voltaic system can price between R50 000 and R250 000
The methods are available three choices:
Grid-tiered – which pulls power from the solar however depends on the grid when there isn’t sufficient to generate electrical energy.
Hybrid – which might create and retailer electrical energy and draw energy from the grid solely when wanted.
Off-grid – which solely depends on photo voltaic power to perform.
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