Going off-grid with a solar power system can be prohibitively expensive. However, there is a more affordable “mixed” option that will enable you to kiss Eskom goodbye for much less.
Households that have invested substantially in solar to cater to most of their electricity demand can buy a generator to become fully independent of Eskom at a much lower cost than upgrading to a full off-grid solar power system.
However, upgrading it with enough production, storage, and output capacity to go entirely off-grid will cost significantly more. For a fully off-grid configuration, the entry-level grid-tied system from Solar Advice would cost about R42,000 to R83,000 more. A 5kW generator should provide more than enough capacity for a small household, while larger households are unlikely to require more than 10kW.
Firstly, they run on an energy source that costs money, while a solar panel generates electricity from a free resource. If a household uses Eskom’s average of 900kWh per month and is only 85% off-grid with its solar power system, it needs 135kWh of electricity from elsewhere.The table below shows how much more you could end up paying to generate the same amount of electricity you would usually buy from the grid.
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