Eskom Rebate Solar Panels

At current eskom rates most of our system will pay for themselves in around 3 4 years.

Eskom rebate solar panels.

The eskom solar rebate programme enables consumers to buy solar water heating systems from accredited suppliers and claim a portion of the cost back as part of eskom s commitment to promoting the use of renewable energy. It is eskom s job to produce energy not to save it. Seventy percent of this rebate is payable upfront and the rest in 10 tranches over three years based on energy consumed on site by the company. Is eskom turning to solar.

The initial target was one million solar water heaters by 2014. The national programme started in 2010 as an eskom rebate scheme to replace existing electrified geysers with solar water heaters in order to reduce the demand for power from the national grid. The most common commercial cells are made from purified silicon si. Eskom is happy to advise that south africans can still apply for rebates on the purchase of sabs and eskom approved solar water heating systems following installations by eskom accredited installers.

The government s ambitious solar water heating rebate programme has fallen dismally short of its target. But as its power station maintenance. The cost structure would badly affect those who have installed solar. The nswh programme started in 2010 as a rebate scheme under eskom to replace existing electrified geysers with solar water heaters in order to alleviate the demand for power from the national grid.

The silicon cell is essentially a p n junction that utilises the energy from the sunlight to generate electron flow from the p type si via an external resistance to the n type si. The south african utility has issued a 20 strong tender for 50 kw solar inverters and mounting structures to be used in four power plants. Our aim is for your solar geyser to pay for itself inside 5 years. A solar geyser can save you up to 40 of your electricity bill.

According to mybroadband south africa s struggling power utility eskom is currently considering a new pricing structure. Eskom recognised this and as part of their idm programme piloted a rebate tariff of r1 20 kwhr consumed on site over a three year period.