Comments regarding load shedding are misleading I have installed a 10KW solar battery system NiCad batteries are guaranteed for 15 years. I had it all installed 2 years ago, my elect bills are zero for 8 months of the year, the other 4 months are about R1500.00 a month. My system has almost paid for more than half the cost of the installation and inverters solar panels etc. Nothing as far as load shedding is going to change and get worse. We have had no interruption of power. It can run 2 rooms of underfloor heating for 4 hours, with no under floor heating or oven and full air conditioning.. Well worth it my wife often works from home so she has no problem lead acid batteries are a waste of time. Think of getting a small system that you can add to. I am considering another 10KW system so off the grid. To hell with Eskom and its thieves, and all the handouts to the poor where Eskom do not dare to go and cut the power. These people were on a strike yesterday demanding free power from Eskom. We the others all have to pay. There is no money for new power stations, both reactors in the Cape are down for 22 months. Some operator switched a 700MW turbine in correctly to the grid and it exploded 4 to 5 years to fix. All my children are living in the UK or NZ.
