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  1. Luis

    Small Free State community that built its own solar power plant

    Small Free State community that built its own solar power plant Well-known South African businessman Rob Hersov believes a diverse coalition of residents, farmers, and private entities has come up with a winning recipe to rebuild broken municipalities. In a recent interview with BizNews's Alec...
  3. Luis

    What it costs the average South African household to install a fully off-grid home power system

    What it costs the average South African household to install a fully off-grid home power system The average South African household can expect to pay around R200,000 for a fully off-grid home power system, including a large solar power plant and petrol generator for emergencies. While the...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Best time to buy solar panels and batteries in SA

    Best time to buy solar panels and batteries in SA Herholdt's Group, one of South Africa's oldest and largest electrical component distributors, believes solar panel and battery prices have bottomed out and that consumers should not hold out for further declines. With production ramping up...
  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    Redefine Properties' solar power capacity grows to 62MW

    Redefine Properties' solar power capacity grows to 62MW South African property developer Redefine Properties has a peak rooftop solar power capacity equivalent to a utility-scale photovoltaic plant or one of Eskom's decommissioned coal-fired generating units. In a presentation on its interim...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Home solar panels and batteries in SA being targeted by criminal syndicates — Guardian Eye

    Home solar panels and batteries in SA being targeted by criminal syndicates — Guardian Eye Guardian Eye managing director Rodney Taylor has warned that organised criminal syndicates are targeting solar installations in South Africa. Speaking to Cape Talk, Taylor explained that rooftop solar...
  7. Luis

    Rooftop solar user charged R380,000 by municipality, told "no issue with billing system"

    Rooftop solar user charged R380,000 by municipality, told "no issue with billing system" A Durban resident with a large rooftop solar installation recently received a municipal bill reflecting electricity charges of nearly R380,000. According to the resident, this amount of consumption was...
  8. Luis

    Eskom sees 4,000MW less power demand as South Africans find alternatives

    Eskom sees 4,000MW less power demand as South Africans find alternatives In four years, average hourly electricity demand on Eskom's network dropped by 4,000MW, approximately the same amount of power it cut from the grid during stage 4 load-shedding. The latest data from the National...
  9. Hanno Labuschagne

    Stellenbosch University team rode an electric bike from Kenya to Stellenbosch using only solar power

    Stellenbosch University team rode an electric bike from Kenya to Stellenbosch using only solar power A team of researchers from Stellenbosch University rode an electric motorcycle from Nairobi in Kenya to Stellenbosch in South Africa, charging only with solar power. In the process, the team...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  10. Hanno Labuschagne

    148MW solar power farm goes online in Limpopo

    148MW solar power farm goes online in Limpopo The Bolobedu Solar Farm, located in rural north-east Limpopo, has been commissioned and has successfully fed the first of its green electricity into the national grid. However, while the solar farm has an installed capacity of 148MW, it will only...
  11. Hanno Labuschagne

    Big questions about Eskom's free solar registration deadline

    Big questions about Eskom's free solar registration deadline Eskom has refused to provide an update on the extension of its free registration period for home and small-business rooftop solar power systems, which is set to end early next week. To improve the registration rate of small-scale...
  12. Hanno Labuschagne

    Why wall-mounted solar panels are not popular in South Africa

    Why wall-mounted solar panels are not popular in South Africa While wall-mounted solar panels are proving useful in certain overseas markets, there are good reasons why they are unlikely to gain much traction in South Africa. Recent studies have shown that vertically oriented solar PV panels...
  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom walks back threats against unregistered solar panel users in South Africa

    Eskom walks back threats against unregistered solar panel users in South Africa Eskom has walked back earlier threats to cut off and fine its direct customers who fail to register their solar power systems. However, it is still demanding compliance. In response, energy analyst Chris Yelland...
  14. Hanno Labuschagne

    Private generation registrations surged to new record in 2025

    Private generation registrations surged to new record in 2025 The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) registered a record private power generation capacity in 2025, roughly the equivalent ot that of one and a half Kusile or Medupi power stations. Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter...
  15. Hanno Labuschagne

    Legal win for South Africa's only solar panel assembler

    Legal win for South Africa's only solar panel assembler Durban-based solar panel firm ArtSolar has scored an early win in its case against the South African government over alleged non-compliance with local procurement requirements in private power projects. ArtSolar first filed papers in the...
  16. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom's solar registration fee exemption deadline looms

    Eskom's solar registration fee exemption deadline looms South African households with small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) installations have until March 2026 to register their systems with Eskom without paying the R10,000 connection fee. According to the Department of Electricity and...
  17. Hanno Labuschagne

    The duo that drove Eskom to drop its expensive solar power registration rule

    The duo that drove Eskom to drop its expensive solar power registration rule Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) CEO Wayne Duvenage and EE Business Intelligence managing director Chris Yelland deserve credit for pushing Eskom to ease its solar power registration rules. Eskom dropped the...
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    • chris yelland ee business intelligence electricity eskom organisation undoing tax abuse (outa) rooftop solar small-scale embedded generation (sseg) solar power wayne duvenage
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    • Forum: Eskom and Electricity: Load Shedding
  18. Hanno Labuschagne

    Scatec launches second-largest solar power farm in South Africa

    Scatec launches second-largest solar power farm in South Africa Norwegian firm Scatec ASA has commenced commercial operation at its new 273MW Grootfontein PV solar power farm in the Western Cape. The farm is expected to generate 700 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of clean energy annually, leading to an...
  19. Hanno Labuschagne

    Mulilo secures another R1.3-billion investment

    Mulilo secures another R1.3-billion investment Norwegian investment fund Norfund has acquired a minority stake in South African renewable energy developer and independent power producer (IPP) Mulilo for $75 million (R1.28 billion). The investment was facilitated through a partnership with...
  20. Hanno Labuschagne

    Going solar 40% cheaper than three years ago

    Going solar 40% cheaper than three years ago South African households installing an off-grid solar power system in 2025 will spend nearly 40% less than those who did the same during the country's load-shedding crisis. The prices of photovoltaic (PV) panels, inverters, and batteries have...
  21. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom chairman says media reporting on improvements is racist

    Eskom chairman says media reporting on improvements is racist Eskom board chair Mteto Nyati says the South African media's reporting on the power utility's turnaround has been unbalanced due to racism. Speaking to Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh during an episode of This Economy, Nyati said the media tries...
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