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About South African Solar Investment Calculator

The South African Solar Investment Calculator is an advanced web-based tool developed by Abgo Web Development to help you quickly determine the potential savings that you can make when you go solar. Using the calculator is extremely simple. All you need to do is to input two basic details - your municipality and your monthly electricity bill. We provide you with various solar kits that are currently available online, and links to making a purchase. Using an interactive chart, we give you an idea of your potential savings against the solarization potential of each kit applied to your specific circumstances.

In the back, we have mapped each municipality, with respects to their electricity rates, solar related tariffs and solar generation potential. The South African Solar Investment Calculator is backed by sophisticated financial formulae in order to generate the most accurate and precise profit values.

Through a concerted effort to obtain all relevant data involved in calculations. Our goal remains to give you, no matter where you live in South Africa, a fully web based tool that will take you one step closer to going Solar for your home. Currently being piloted in the Western Cape.

The following is a simple breakdown of how we use some of your inputs:

Municipality: Allows us to understand the cost of your electricity, PV potential of the area and various tariffs for tying your system to the grid.
Assumptions - Sunlight checkboxes: Affects how much energy from the sun you can actually capture.
Assumptions - Electricity used while sun out: Will affect your savings for the electricity you use directly from your PV panels.
Assumptions - Annual PV potential: If checked, we use average values from SolarGIS.

When you input your electricity bill and municipality (You also have the ability to edit a few assumptions that we make and a few advanced options for determining how the relevant rates will change over time), we apply these inputs to various solar kits and their real-time costs. We then generate a report and summary for solar kits ranging from extremely small (0.7kWp) to large (15kWp+). Currently our modelling only applies to private home users.