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SA’s businesses stuck with solar systems for loadshedding, not savings

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SA’s businesses stuck with solar systems for loadshedding, not savings
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South African businesses are sitting on thousands of underperforming solar systems because they were never installed to save money on their energy bills. During the load shedding crisis, businesses spent tens of billions of rand on solar and battery systems to keep the lights on. Little consideration went into sizing systems for cost efficiency, matching output to actual usage patterns or optimising for the time of day when electricity is most expensive. The result is a country with underperform

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