Doesn’t south Africa get a ton of scheduled blackouts? I remember a friend having to check an app to see if he would have electricity to play games with us that day. If that is the case, I too would invest into solar if I could

Makes sense. Loadshedding is a bitch, running generators is expensive and SA gets plenty of sunlight. Additionally (and perhaps most importantly) there are quite a few people who actually have the money to afford solar panels.