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.