Instead of putting storage at the front of our power solution, we’ve put it at the back
On Sunday evening I arrived home from holiday. The lights had come on automatically as darkness fell. I walked into the house, dropped my bags and went straight to the fridge for the beer I knew would be nice and cold.
It was only the next day that I realised I had arrived home during load-shedding, Eskom’s managed rolling power blackouts. I hadn’t noticed. I’ve become a bit detached from the scale of our power disaster since installing solar panels and a battery system two years ago. We always have electricity...
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