Thanks to years of loadshedding, South Africans who can afford to have installed rooftop solar systems to avoid being at the mercy of an unreliable national electricity supply. Eskom estimates that 6,178MW of private rooftop solar capacity has been installed by the beginning of 2025. It’s almost as much as the grid-connected renewable capacity, which is 6,505MW, according to the latest status report from Eskom’s National Transmission Company.Rooftop solar systems, even though they aren’t connected to the country’s electricity grid, are reducing demand and therefore alleviating pressure on the electricity supply, says Eskom.Get the data used in this chart from DataDesk