Is Your Solar System Legal, Safe and Registered?

Thousands of solar systems went up across Johannesburg during the load-shedding rush of 2022 and 2023. A lot of them were installed fast, by whoever was available, and never registered with the municipality.

If yours was one of them, you have no way of knowing whether it is safe, whether your insurer would pay out, or whether it will hold up a property transfer.

What most homeowners do not know is that the responsibility sits with you. The owner or user of a solar installation is legally responsible for its safety and safe operation, and an unsafe system may not be operated. Not the installer who has moved on. You.

CleanVolts tells you where you stand. We audit, fix, register, re-tune and maintain the solar system you already have.

• Full physical inspection of the system as installed

• Thermal scan of connections, DB boards and isolators to find heat before it becomes a fire

• DC cabling, earthing, bonding and isolator checks against SANS requirements

• Labelling and documentation gaps

• SSEG registration status with your municipality

• A written report with photographs, and a clear pass or fail

Audits run between R3,500 and R6,000 depending on system size. If the system passes, we arrange the Certificate of Compliance through our registered electrical contractor. If it fails, you get a remediation quote and no obligation to use us for the work.

Load shedding has stopped. That is not a reason to stop thinking about your solar system — it is the reason to start.

Insurers are increasingly asking for a CoC before paying a claim on fire or lightning damage.

City Power is enforcing SSEG registration, and registering moves you onto postpaid billing with a materially higher fixed monthly charge. It is worth knowing that number before it appears on your bill.

Conveyancers are picking up unregistered solar during transfers, and it stalls the sale.

And electricity keeps getting more expensive in a way that specifically punishes the system you already bought.

None of these are hypothetical. They are the four reasons people call us.

A system specified for load shedding in 2023 is set up for the wrong thing in 2026. Nothing is broken — it is just aimed at surviving an outage rather than at cutting your bill.

If your savings are smaller than you expected, that is usually configuration, not equipment.

Blairgowrie, Linden, Randburg, Ferndale, Northcliff, Fairland, Emmarentia, Greenside and Parkhurst, and the suburbs around them. 

Download the free checklist and run through it yourself. It takes ten minutes and tells you whether an audit is worth booking.