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More Renewable Energy can Help Solve Rolling Power Outages in South Africa

Without much warning last week, South Africa returned to a state of rolling outages after the utility announced faults at a number of its coal plants. Chris Ahlfeldt recently offered some thoughts on the power crisis and some potential solutions to PV Magazine on how more renewables can make South Africa’s energy industry cleaner, more reliable, and create more jobs. Check-out the full article here.

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