South Africa Is Primed for Major Solar Development

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South Africa enjoys some of the best sunshine in the world all year round and its electricity is among the most expensive on the planet. The country’s lofty solar ambitions therefore come as little surprise: Forty-two percent of South Africa’s newly-installed energy capacity should be renewable by 2030. Its solar power generation is expected to reach 1,050 MW by 2015 in contrast with just 25 MW in 2012. The country is also expected to have installed over four million solar panels and have the capacity to set up 1.6 million more by the same date. South Africa’s solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity should also reach 8.4 GW by 2030.

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Re: South Africa Is Primed for Major Solar Development

Electricity used to be the cheapest in the world thanks to coal. We then had a democratic election.

Today we are a 'teenage' rainbow nation, growing up fast, therein the expensive electricity.

And as everything in Africa is 20 years behind the rest, when we catch on ... we go places. :-)

Would be absolutely amazing when all these solar / wind plants are up and running, with homeowners grid tying so that we can reduce our coal dependency, forget about nuclear and also stop them from 'fracking the Karoo' for gas deposits.