Mayor Hill-Lewis calls on Capetonians to help end load-shedding using solar incentives
22 February 2023
‘Cape Town welcomes the incentives announced for solar PV investments, which will support households and businesses to rapidly scale up power generation. Our message to Capetonians is clear: there has never been a better time to invest in solar. We want as many residents and businesses as possible to help us end load-shedding over time, as the first city in the country to offer cash for excess rooftop solar power. There are no limits, sell us much of your excess power to us as you can,’ said Mayor Hill-Lewis.
Cape Town is set to start paying businesses cash for power before June, while residents can start selling power for cash later this year. The City will add a 25c p/kWh incentive to feed-in tariffs.
Besides paying cash for power, Cape Town is forging ahead with its three-phase procurement for load-shedding protection, with the goal of protecting residents from the first four stages of Eskom’s load-shedding.
A 200MW procurement window for renewable energy concluded last year, with contracts to be awarded later this year following grid integration studies by the Centre for Scientific Research (CSIR).