“The last decade was all about solar, and solar will continue, but the long-term solution is going to be a combination of solar, wind and battery storage,” said Yellow Door Energy's Mohamed Madhi.
It said the record numbers of load-shedding hours last year forced homeowners and businesses to search for alternative energy sources outside buying batteries and generators.
“Beside batteries, which can store energy from the grid, and generators, which can produce electricity during an outage, solar power seems to be the renewable source of choice.”“The demand for solar systems more than doubled in June and July, which corresponds to the first peak of Eskom outages between the end of June and the first half of July,” it said.
“The demand fell sharply in August, when there were fewer outages, but picked up again in early September, along with a record number of disruptions of electricity supply. “Even though the winter months are over, when the demand for photovoltaics usually slows down, requests for solar panels are nearing all-time highs again.”
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