Getting rid of the Eskom grid: what going solar entails

Business Day Live
10 March 2020
Using solar power to deal with load-shedding is not as easy or cheap as it might seem, as Lisa Steyn reports in the first of a three-part series.
Load-shedding can drive people to madness and no-one knows it better than Scott Andrew, MD of Get Off Grid, a Joburg-based supplier and installer of solar power solutions.
 

Market Segment
System Size
Total Capacity
Residential
0 - 30 kWp
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Commercial and Industrial (C&I) - SSEG
30kWp - 1MWp
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C&I Large Scale and utility scale
1MWP - 50MWp
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Utility Scale
> 50MWp
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TOTAL
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