A few days of gloomy weather can quickly kill those off-grid dreams.
The recent bout of inclement weather over northeast and central South Africa serves as a good reminder of why going fully off-grid is not realistic for many households.
MyBroadband analysed the performance of a Pretoria home’s entry-level solar power system with six 545W panels in February 2025 for a real-life example of why it is difficult to kiss the grid goodbye for good. However, taking that off-grid figure to 100% will require much more than a 14% increase in solar panel capacity and batteries, as evidenced by the system’s performance in February 2025.
This was sufficient to meet nearly all of the home’s demand, with only 6.3kWh pulled from the grid over those two weeks.
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