South African energy expert Anton Eberhard has crunched data released by Eskom to find that South Africa's installed rooftop solar PV capacity increased from 983MW in March 2022 to 4,412MW in June 2023. This is a 349% increase in a little over a year.
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The report relies on data from Chinese imports because the vast majority of Africa's solar panels come from the Asian giant, and because China produced 80 per cent of the world's solar panels in 2024, by far the biggest exporter globally.