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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Applications for solar installations in Cape Town have soared amid ongoing load shedding.<\/p>\n

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said the City had received a record number of new applications for installing rooftop photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. More than 2 300 new applications were made this year, with 700 of those in March.<\/p>\n

“Just the first four months of 2023 account for 21% of all solar PV applications received since records began.<\/p>\n

“These figures show an energised market response to Cape Town’s incentives for businesses and residents with solar PV generation capacity,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said residential applications are driving the increase as homeowners look to capitalise on the City’s incentive programmes which offer households cash for their excess rooftop solar power.<\/p>\n

“To make going solar even more attractive, the City is raising the residential small-scale embedded generation tariff by 10.15% for 2023\/24, plus a 25c per kWh incentive. The City is also significantly reducing the monthly AMI (Advance Metering Infrastructure) meter administration fee in 2023\/24.<\/p>\n

“This is aside from the new national tax incentives for solar PV investment,” said Hill-Lewis.<\/p>\n

The City is set to start paying businesses for power generation in June and residents will be able to start selling power to the metro later this year.<\/p>\n

There is also a planned campaign later this year to incentivise households to sign up for remote demand management during peak times, such as for power-hungry geysers and pool pumps.<\/p>\n

“In fact, should just 25 000 of Cape Town’s more than 600 000 electricity customers sign-up as Power Heroes, we can protect against an additional one full stage of load shedding during peak hours,” said Hill-Lewis.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Africa. Applications for solar installations in Cape Town have soared amid ongoing load shedding. Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said the City had received a record number of new applications for installing rooftop photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. More than 2 300 new applications were made this year, with 700 of those in March. 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