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Title: Expanding SA's PV Market Webinar
When: 25.07.2013
Location: online
Description: 2PM - 3PM (SAST)

As load shedding and electricity prices continue to increase in South Africa, a growing number of businesses are turning towards rooftop PV systems as a means to ensuring a secure and cost effective supply of power.

This complimentary webinar will examine the case for futher expansion of commercial rooftop PV within South Africa from the perspectives of commercial power consumers, solar companies, investors and policy makers.

Key questions to be addressed include:

How does the payback time for a PV system compare to current and projected electricity prices in South Africa?
What are commercial power consumer attitudes to solar PV and who have been the early movers in the space?
What growth in commercial PV is expected in South Africa under different scenarios?
What grants, rebates and financing options are available to businesses?

Agenda Outline

PV’s competitiveness for commercial power consumers
Electricity prices across South Africa
Current calculations on PV costs and payback times (in South Africa and globally)

The uptake of commercial PV

What is the volume of rooftop PV currently installed and who have been the early adopters?
What are commercial attitudes towards PV and which are most open to the power source?
What are the key hesitations of businesses and how can these be overcome?

Making PV cost effective

What grants/rebates are available to businesses for installing solar?
Where do regulations currently stand on net metering and how are these predicted to change?
How can upfront costs further be minimised?

Q&A; Session

Opportunities for listeners to submit questions to the webinar speakers

Resistering is free

Contact details here:

http://www.greenpowerconferences.com/EF/?sSubSystem=Prospectus&sEventCode;=SP1309ZAWB&sSessionID;=cmj2p5net2tjg12vhoh9orfk81-711854&sDocument;=Contact
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