Offices, Shops Could Hold Answers to South Africa’s Power Woes
- Country has 68.7 million square meters of untapped roof space
- South Africa is currently in midst of worst ever power crisis
Rooftops on the city skyline in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Photographer: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images
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South Africa’s commercial property industry has the potential to ease the country’s power crisis, with enough roof space to generate 4.7 gigawatts of electricity, a new study has found.
Retail, office and industrial properties in the country’s five biggest cities have 68.7 million square meters (739 million square feet) of rooftops that have no solar panels, according to the study by Gmaven, a South African real estate software and data services company.