If you can’t afford to go solar, your main options when loadshedding hits are inverters, generators or gas. Here’s a comprehensive guide so you can see which solution suits you best. | YouMagazine
These days we joke about what to do with uninterrupted electricity when loadshedding is briefly suspended. But the sad reality is our days are likely to get much darker no matter how fast Eskom’s leadership or the new electricity minister can find a solution to keep on the lights.
It’s widely accepted that we’re nowhere near having days without constant power cuts, which is why many South Africans are seeking affordable solutions to counter the effects of loadshedding. Although solar energy power systems are cost-effective over the long term, many consumers can’t afford to have it installed now.
So we asked experts to break down the various factors of the main alternatives – inverters, generators and gas – that you need to take into account so you can see what works best for you.Inverters run off battery power. When loadshedding kicks in the system uses the batteries to keep various appliances on in your home. The battery is charged when there’s electricity.
Inverters can use different sources of incoming energy if you have multiple ways to power things in your home. “The core use of an inverter is to regulate current between different sources, for example between a solar system, batteries or the grid feeding into the household,” says Maloba Tshehla, Joburg-based head of strategy at ED Platform, an economic development adviser company operating in the renewable energy sector. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
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