# Solar energy company GoSolr says while other countries are accelerating their solar transitions, South Africa is being held back by a tangle of regulations that penalise, rather than encourage, solar adoption. The amount of energy coming from solar now accounts for 11.5-percent of the country’s energy mix, outpacing the 6.6-percent nuclear energy contributes to the grid. In its latest Light Paper, GoSolr proposes several steps to renewable energy success. These include unifying the national framework for solar, and import tariffs on solar equipment need to be re-examined.
GoSolr says SA’s growing potential of solar power is being held back by policy inconsistencies