South Africa’s solar market has grown rapidly as households, businesses, and developers search for more reliable alternatives to load shedding and rising electricity costs. But limited transmission capacity, grid congestion, and connection delays are making it increasingly difficult to turn strong solar resources into operating projects.
In this episode of Ogami Station, Martín Rimblas, Strategic Account Executive for the South African market at RatedPower, sits down to discuss the growth of private and utility-scale solar, the role of batteries in supporting constrained grids, the expansion of energy storage across Africa, and what developers need to consider when planning solar-plus-storage projects.
