Management at Eskom have a new master plan. Unable to foresee the death spiral 5 years ago when solar powered battery back-up systems became a necessity, the master(?) minds have come up with a plan to return themselves to some form of profitability. A better term would be to prolong our agony. Pre-paid meters do

The link below is a really interesting interpretation of how base loads are diminishing year on year as solar and wind production become more entrenched and ‘mainstream’. The trends follow the same graph from Australia through to California. South Africa’s follows the same path. The difference for South Africa is that the majority of our

Politicians are built on promises they cannot keep and have no idea how to actually get something, anything, done. Despite the promises you may hear about how load shedding is being resolved, the facts are vastly removed from the rhetoric. Revisiting previous posts, we made the statement that Eskom has a rapidly diminishing number of

Lithium battery banks or storage is pretty much the norm for solar system users. Read the article in the link which gives some great advice on how to get more lifespan out of your investment. It is a marathon, not a sprint. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/513837-how-to-make-lithium-batteries-last-longer.html?utm_source=newsletter

It was blatantly obvious at the start of Eskom’s demise that there was no quick fix. It became clear that as more residential and commercial customers purchased less power from errant Eskom (and their municipal leeches), that Eskom’s income stream would diminish at a disproportional rate. There have been quite a few horror stories (unverified),

It didn’t take a Neil deGrasse Tyson to see this one coming. The beginning of load shedding saw early adopters taking the plunge into solar/back-up systems. The continued decline of the energy availability factor (EAF)  and the impact this was having on businesses and homes saw the uptake increase substantially over the next few years.