March 23Mar 23 Maybe all solar owners must switch off their systems for a couple of days and see what will happen? 🖕
March 23Mar 23 SABC News - Breaking news, speci...INFOGRAPHIC: Eskom struggles to keep up with peak demand...The latest data from Eskom shows that the power utility struggled to keep up with demand.
March 23Mar 23 10 hours ago, Virwat said:Maybe all solar owners must switch off their systems for a couple of days and see what will happen? 🖕Would be nice if all solar users agree on a week. Would be fun to see. Most of the "stability" of the grid was attained by more houses going solar.
April 5Apr 5 Word on the street is they've walked back some of this...for now.Daily MaverickEskom waives solar registration fees for homeowners until...Eskom has waived registration fees and will provide free smart meters for residential small-scale embedded generation systems up to 50kVA until March 2026, but an accredited engineer still has to s...
April 5Apr 5 42 minutes ago, MrBeauvedere said:Word on the street is they've walked back some of this...for now.Daily MaverickEskom waives solar registration fees for homeowners until...Eskom has waived registration fees and will provide free smart meters for residential small-scale embedded generation systems up to 50kVA until March 2026, but an accredited engineer still has to s...42 minutes ago, MrBeauvedere said:Word on the street is they've walked back some of this...for now.Daily MaverickEskom waives solar registration fees for homeowners until...Eskom has waived registration fees and will provide free smart meters for residential small-scale embedded generation systems up to 50kVA until March 2026, but an accredited engineer still has to s...As a lay person I get irritated by these reports. 50kva. What's that? The amount your panels can produce or the amount your inverter/s can output? Guys writing these articles should answer these questions. And cost of sign-off... Does this include bringing the system up to standards? Drawings and a signature? Eskom (nor a municipality) cannot control what an engineer charges. Again we need a breakdown.
April 5Apr 5 2 hours ago, Bobster. said:As a lay person I get irritated by these reports. 50kva. What's that? The amount your panels can produce or the amount your inverter/s can output? Guys writing these articles should answer these questions.I get your frustration, but the guy writing the article is probably just an ordinary journalist without a technical qualification, just copying and pasting the info from Eskom.Anyway, the 50kVA spec cannot be referring to panel output, because panels only produce DC-current. The 50kVA apparent power rating only makes sense in the context of Alternating Current, so it can only mean the inverter's AC output. Edited April 5Apr 5 by GreenFields
April 5Apr 5 52 minutes ago, GreenFields said:I get your frustration, but the guy writing the article is probably just an ordinary journalist without a technical qualification, just copying and pasting the info from Eskom.Anyway, the 50kVA spec cannot be referring to panel output, because panels only produce DC-current. The 50kVA apparent power rating only makes sense in the context of Alternating Current, so it can only mean the inverter's AC output.OK... so that's one big ass system. Commercial, not residential
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