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Yes, this exactly what we're trying to achieve. Some of the installers we had here (who does inhouse financing) said they can do it; however, their quotes don't make sense financially. Any pointers or ideas where I could get more information regarding this option?

Hi, thank you for your reply. Okay so I left out quite a few details. The supplies are all Ruraflex points Currently not interested in feeding back into the grid We'd like to keep the supplies at 200kVA to keep Eskom's costs down To keep costs down we're looking to implement a battery system to "bridge" the peak tariff hours (3 hours at night and 2 hours during the morning) The full load of one of our farms is around 340 amps, which is over the 200kVA supply's 300A capacity So, for instance, our projected future load is around 450A during daylight hours (pumps feed a dam up a hill during the day with gravity feed at night) is it allowed within Eskom's regulations to install a 300/350kW hybrid inverter system while keeping the supply at 200kVA? Eskom will then only be used during the day to maybe charge batteries, supplement the solar on cloudy days and used at night to run reduced loads.

Hi, We're potato farmers in the Western Cape looking to install solar to reduce our costs for irrigation. We have about four 200KVA supply points distributed across our farms which we're planning to add solar. We've gotten a few quotes from installers and all of them seems to have different opinions regarding a question we had for one or two of our supply points. As we're expanding our operations, some of the 200KVA points are being utilised to their limit, so what we wanted to do is to cover the additional demand via solar by installing for instance a 300kw system instead of only 200kw. However, this is where the installers differ, some say due to the Eskom SSEG regulations it is not allowed, while others say it is possible with the correct protection and motivation in the application. Does anyone have any experience in this regard? Thank you!