Solar Panels SA is an independent blog for South African homeowners and small businesses trying to make sense of solar. We started it during the worst of load shedding, when everyone we knew was getting inverter quotes and nobody could explain them.
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Load shedding was the reason we started. It isn’t why most people read now. These days the questions are whether a battery still pays off without Stage 6, how feed-in tariffs work in each metro, and what the big solar farms in the Northern Cape mean for the price of power.
So we write about four things:
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