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The best-case scenario for rooftop solar tax breaks in South Africa: Expert
Staff Writer 21 February 2023 Finance minister Enoch Godongwana is widely expected to announce a tax incentive related to rooftop solar during his budget speech this week (22 February). This follows confirmation from president Cyril Ramaphosa during is State of the...
Powering On with Grid-Forming Inverters
Powering On with Grid-Forming Inverters JANUARY 4, 2021 To restart the grid after a blackout, grid operators must first turn on a conventional energy source, like a coal or natural gas plant, before they can add other energy sources, like solar and energy...
How Cheap and Abundant Can Clean Power Get?
BY STEPHEN LACEY MAY 21, 2021 This week on The Interchange: are the assumptions about using electricity to decarbonize realistic? So How Cheap and Abundant Can Clean Power Get? A decarbonized power sector will unlock massive opportunities across nearly every other...
New power controversy as SA does about-turn on solar panels
By: Antony Sguazzin South Africa’s plans to buy emergency power, already the subject of a court challenge, faces fresh controversy after a local-content requirement for solar-panel frames was scrapped subsequent to the award of the tenders. The 65%...
Assessment of floating PV potential at African hydropower reservoirs
JUNE 1, 2021 EMILIANO BELLINI European researchers have estimated the potential of floating PV deployment at Africa’s existing hydropower reservoirs which exceed 5 MW in size, by using satellite images and hydropower reservoir data. Under the most likely scenario...
Crypto power: Can solar panels boost cheap, green homes in South Africa?
Kim Harrisberg When property developer Anver Essop bought land in Cape Town’s gang-ridden Cape Flats area, people laughed at him for considering it an investment. Now, 12 years later, the Watergate Estate is a sought-after refuge that will soon be donned with solar...
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