Commercial solar could cut five stages of load shedding
commercial property industry has the potential to ease the country’s power crisis, with enough roof space to generate 4.7GW of electricity, a new study has found.
Retail, office and industrial properties in the country’s five biggest cities have 68.7 million square metres of rooftops that have no solar panels, according to the study byInstalling solar panels on two-thirds of commercial properties in those cities’ main nodes would cost as much as R55-billion, yet they could generate electricity that leads to R12.3-billion of savings each year, Gmaven said. Just 6.4% of the 41 000 properties it surveyed already have panels in place.
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