Over the past few years the city of cape town has seen a rapid uptake of rooftop solar photo voltaic pv installations and encourages all home and business owners with these installations to register both grid tied and off grid small scale embedded generation sseg systems by 28 february 2019.
City of cape town approved solar inverters.
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A list of approved inverters.
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Many of cape town s residents have been confused since the city announced that domestic solar power systems must be registered by february 28 2019 and are wondering about the implications.
2010 certifications but no nrs 097 2 1.
Cape town s approved inverters list originally posted by kaballas the absence of any requirements stipulating that an off grid inverter needs to be on the approved list is an answer in itself.
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The database is available from the city of cape town website.
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To be legal the installation has to be approved by the city.
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Residents have the option of registering a feed in system which allows you to export excess electricity to the grid and receive credit based on the sseg tariff.
Criteria used for the testing of those inverters stem from the nrs097 range of standards.
All solar pv systems installed within the city of cape town electricity supply area must be registered for authorisation by the city.
Over the past few years cape town has seen a huge increase in the number of rooftop solar photovoltaic pv installations.
P p all solar pv systems installed within the city of cape town electricity.
Box 82 cape town 8000 telephone.
In cape town inverters that may be used for grid tied installations all form part of a process whereby they eventually end up on a database of approved systems.
At the bottom of the list there is a note that those inverters are approved for use until the end of 2019 in other words come january 2020 they either need re approval under nrs 097 2.
I heard that inverters with nrs 097 2 1.
Sseg refers to systems generating less than 1mva that are connected to the city s electricity grid p p solar pv is suitable for any place where there is a good solar resource and electricity is already used including residential commercial and industrial areas.
2017 certifications would still get city of cape town approval during 2019.