Cape Town’s rooftop solar applications reach new record; 100MW-plus already installed

The City of Cape Town says its “rooftop solar boom” has reached a new record, with August seeing the highest ever level of solar photovoltaic (PV) installation applications.  More than 1 500 small scale embedded generation (SSEG) applications were received in August, which is a 50% increase compared with July, the previous record month at around 1 000 applications. 
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Only 28 of the 136 munis owing Eskom R58bn-plus approved to participate in write-off scheme

Only 28 municipalities have to date been given approval by the National Treasury to participate in the Eskom Municipal Debt Relief Support Programme, which was announced in the February Budget as part of a R254-billion debt-relief package that has been extended to the utility. The programme is designed to enable Eskom to write off municipal arrears debt, which stood at R58.5-billion at the end of March with 136 of the country’s 257 municipalities in arrears. In September, Eskom indicated that its outstanding municipal debt had increased to above R65-billion.
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