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My planned solar system upgrade
Technology has improved and prices have dropped in the past decade, making an upgrade just about impossible to resist. 00:01
The first step for those thinking about going off-grid is to reduce electricity consumption. Image: Shutterstock
After nearly 10 years living off-grid and some 240 months not paying the municipality or Eskom a cent for electricity, not to mention the pleasure of not having to deal with load shedding, the time has come for me to upgrade my solar system and replace some components with more modern equipment.
The main reason is winter; the shorter days and days-long cloudy weather and rain along the Garden Route are making an upgrade unavoidable, or I will have the same power disruptions the rest of the country experiences. A secondary reason is that there is much better stuff available now.
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