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South Africa’s Power Crisis Is Driving A Boom In Solar Energy

As South Africans install their own solar panels to keep the lights on the country is in the grip of severe rolling power cuts. Most South Africans have gone without electricity for 6 hours a day or more and now many business and households are taking matters into their own hands.

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