Businesses dropping Eskom and switching to solar

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South African businesses ditching Eskom

South African businesses are rapidly adopting renewable energy to protect against load-shedding and other power interruptions.

According to the latest data from the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa), there has been a significant surge in the number of large private power facilities installed by businesses over the past five years.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
smaller businesses yes, bigger ones like smelters simply cant go off Eskom as much as they want to.
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Yea bigger ones tend to have portions of their load covered ie 20/30/40%

Unfortunately eskom has lost those that have gone a portion

ie once you have your own figures it becomes harder to convince yourself not go all in eventually
 
just the ridiculous prices has become enough incentive to go solar

Load shedding was the catalyst
But since so many can see the benefits in locking down energy costs they become evangelists now

So unfortunately that genie can't go back in the lamp for eskom

They would have to lower the price again to take away the incentive even after they have dealt with shedding
 
Our site is going to replace the current 300kWp grid tied system with a 1MWp system, with 1MWh battery backup.
 
leon.davibe said:
just the ridiculous prices has become enough incentive to go solar

Load shedding was the catalyst
But since so many can see the benefits in locking down energy costs they become evangelists now

So unfortunately that genie can't go back in the lamp for eskom

They would have to lower the price again to take away the incentive even after they have dealt with shedding
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No wonder Eskom wants to charge less for using electricity and much more simply for being connected.
 
Lupus said:
And the backup to that?
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With battery and array in 1:1 one of the two is sized odd

Most likely a solar oversize for winter and bad weather

It is cheaper to deal with shortfall in crap weather with oversize array vs oversize battery
 
leon.davibe said:
With battery and array in 1:1 one of the two is sized odd

Most likely a solar oversize for winter and bad weather

It is cheaper to deal with shortfall in crap weather with oversize array vs oversize battery
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They have the real backup, generators
 
Randomwasavailable said:
No wonder Eskom wants to charge less for using electricity and much more simply for being connected.
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So now it will likely get to the point that it is cheaper to have a generator backup as that doesn't get penalised

And to avoid solar
To avoid being taxed for their incompetence

Hope people still give them the finger, to force some change
 
Jan said:
South African businesses ditching Eskom

South African businesses are rapidly adopting renewable energy to protect against load-shedding and other power interruptions.

According to the latest data from the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa), there has been a significant surge in the number of large private power facilities installed by businesses over the past five years.
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Business kissing Eskom goodbye

Bloody hell.
 
South African Businesses Dumping Eskom Say "Sawubona" to Sexy Times with Solar

Massive.
 
leon.davibe said:
With battery and array in 1:1 one of the two is sized odd

Most likely a solar oversize for winter and bad weather

It is cheaper to deal with shortfall in crap weather with oversize array vs oversize battery
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From what I understand, our site hits around 500kWp during the day, and 300kWp at night. So solar is oversized to carry load and charge battery, even when the weather isn't optimal. Battery is large enough to carry the load for a while, and if the outage is too long, we can always fall back on the generators.

At least with the hybrid system, the solar doesn't shut down when the mains fail, unlike the grid tied system.
 
ectoplasm said:
Like Mybroadband's daily DSTV vomit they keep pretending to be news.
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Yeah the mods can't be bothered. Brings in the $$$ and you get told to go find your news elsewhere if you are bothered by it
 
AntennaMan said:
From what I understand, our site hits around 500kWp during the day, and 300kWp at night. So solar is oversized to carry load and charge battery, even when the weather isn't optimal. Battery is large enough to carry the load for a while, and if the outage is too long, we can always fall back on the generators.

At least with the hybrid system, the solar doesn't shut down when the mains fail, unlike the grid tied system.
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You cant get solar at night but you can draw from the batteries.
 
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