Legislative guidance needed to unlock renewable- energy-storage benefits

The use of renewable energy, such as solar photovoltaic, and exploring energy storage technologies, are integral to balancing the local energy mix in South Africa, including in the domestic and commercial sectors of the country. However, government needs to provide more guidance in terms of legislation in order to better implement these energy storage solutions correctly to the benefit of all relevant stakeholders, including State-owned power utility Eskom and end-users, states solar energy equipment supplier Valsa Trading MD Svilen Voychev.