Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is travelling to China this week to meet some of the country's biggest solar equipment manufacturers to make it easier for SA to import panels.
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa intends to ask the Chinese government to help ensure that solar-power installers secure reliable access to panels as demand for alternative sources of energy grows.
South African businesses and households are increasingly opting to reduce their reliance on the grid as power utility Eskom which supplies more than 90% of the nation's electricity, subjects the country to daily power cuts because its old and poorly maintained coal-fired plants can't meet demand.
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