Eskom publishes the first data on the amount of rooftop solar power is installed in SA. Eskom loadshedding TheCitizenNews solarpower solarenergy renewableenergy sustainability Read the findings⬇️
It is believed the data for private installations is being produced by Eskom’s transmission division, based on the difference between forecast and actual demand . These estimates would typically factor inPut simply, if the utility expects demand of 30 000MW at midday midweek, and there is only demand of 28 000MW , it would then be able to reliably attribute this to the impact of rooftop solar.
Eskom’s transmission unit would have incredibly granular data , which would smooth out any distortions and is why these estimates can be this specific.The first mention of this 4 000MW number ironically came in an interview with former Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer published earlier this month. The so-called ‘hot takes’ on Twitter – or X as we’ll soon be calling it – suggest somewhat shallowly that somehow this nearly 4.5GWp of capacity has reduced the severity of load shedding by four stages.
Between sunrise and sunset, the amount of this rooftop solar capacity that is ‘deliverable’ is likely, on average, to be a maximum of 50%.
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