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July 21, 2009
Solar water heaters could replace a power station
Eskom has previously calculated that its (thus far) unsuccessful programme to roll out 925 000 solar water heaters in higher-income households would reduce peak demand on the grid by 578 megawatts.
If it had hypothetically aimed to implement a programme nine times this size and extended it to low-income households, then, assuming a roughly comparable savings rate, Eskom would save power equivalent to more than 5 000MW.
Posted by StaffWriter at July 21, 2009 9:42 AM
