With all of the sunshine in not just the country of South Africa, but the entire continent would just be converting those photons into electrons and selling the excess electricity.
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With all of the sunshine in not just the country of South Africa, but the entire continent would just be converting those photons into electrons and selling the excess electricity.
Even with our sunlight, there's only a limited amount of land in Africa that can leverage solar at any sort of scale, so there are limitations. In addition, we don't have a robust interconnected grid so even if we had large-scale solar, transporting that electricity would be highly inefficient and costly.
The initiative above is just to get certain institutions like schools and stores to be less dependant which I can appreciate since we regularly have rolling black outs