Enter Hohm Energy, South Africa’s first solar marketplace platform. With Hohm Energy, everything is online, convenient and fast: the process for receiving a bespoke solar proposal for your property takes just 3 minutes online, and with this, there are a range of financing options available.
We recently gained some insight into the plans for decommissioning of the coal power fleet when the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism publicised the schedule for each power station coming offline. Below is the informational timeline they published: Solar power is termed “intermittent” power as it produces maximum power in the middle of the day and not much power in the early morning or late evening.
This amount of coal capacity represents 7 stages of load shedding, as each stage equates to 1000 MW of power which is unavailable to meet the grid peak power demand. This leads to a projection of load shedding doubling over the next 5 years, and along with that, the price of electricity also doubling, says Matthew Cruise, lead Campaign Manager at Hohm Energy.
The cost of the equipment needed to generate household electricity has dropped significantly over the last 15 years by at least 90%, makingthe most affordable time to reduce your reliance on Eskom by getting a solar and battery system.The solution and how you get it? Hohm has developed a 3rd party quality control service model via a network of certified Solar Quality Advisors that are allocated to every installation to snag all technical and aesthetic issues, all of which are required to be resolved prior to system commissioning and handover.
Being a marketplace, Hohm also works with leading Tier 1 solar product components that it aggregates from local product suppliers. A Tier 1 product is defined as one that has the best quality guarantees in the industry.