The vast majority of excess generation from rooftop solar is not being fed back into the grid. Moneyweb Eskom LoadShedding
Eskom has for the first time published data on the amount of rooftop photovoltaic solar it believes is installed in South Africa. By June, the maximum capacity of this generation totalled 4 411.5MWp , a 95% increase on the 2 264.5MWp installed in July last year. This itself is a doubling of the just under 1 000MWp installed at the end of the first quarter. Read: How much Eskom wants to charge normal households, and those with solar An interesting comparison can be made between the 4.
Read: Former COO Jan Oberholzer to stay on at Eskom Oberholzer’s Eskom stay cut short as Koeberg outage slips again Eskom’s data also seems to line up – roughly – with solar PV import data. This shows that panels with approximately 1 500MWp of generation capacity were imported last year, with a further 1 000MWp in the first quarter of 2023. The so-called ‘hot takes’ on Twitter – or X as we’ll soon be calling it – suggest somewhat shallowly that somehow this nearly 4.
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