We looked into going solar in 1995, it was hellish expensive and ESKOM turned around and said you have a connection to the home, you will pay irrespective!
Resident in the village put up wind turbine, lasted about ten years when I noticed it came down never to go up again, wonder what legal problems he ran into!
Mixed messages from this government (including previous one) have always been the need for greed, at least previous we still had a lot that worked, not ideal circumstances catering to minority population.