{"id":86775,"date":"2024-01-28T14:48:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T14:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/?p=86775"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:41:10","slug":"small-generators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2024\/01\/28\/small-generators\/","title":{"rendered":"Business takes up the challenge of loadshedding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Between 2018 and 2023 more than 1,300 energy projects were registered with the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of these projects (85%) were under 1MW. These \u2018smaller\u2019 installs are primarily those done by businesses, farms and shopping centres looking to bolster their energy supply against the threat of loadshedding. A 1MW installation is roughly enough to power 650 average homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nersa\u2019s registrations do not include the much larger REIPP projects like the solar and wind farms that are focused on putting power into the national grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the 1,310 projects licensed, 1,109 have been installs of under 1MW. There are also 130 projects of between 1MW and 10MW, and 71 projects larger than 10MW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smaller than 1MW<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The majority of the Nersa registrations under 1MW are by businesses taking charge of their electricity security after 495 days of blackouts<\/a> in the past 3 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agriculture and real estate businesses registered over half of these <1MW energy installations. Unsurprisingly, solar made up the vast majority of these. The few exceptions were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n