{"id":25894,"date":"2026-02-27T22:47:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/2026\/02\/27\/south-african-small-businesses-turn-to-solar-power-to-overcome-outages\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:47:39","slug":"south-african-small-businesses-turn-to-solar-power-to-overcome-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/2026\/02\/27\/south-african-small-businesses-turn-to-solar-power-to-overcome-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"South African small businesses turn to solar power to overcome outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NtX0pnzr7RE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Frequent power outages in South Africa have pushed many small businesses to adopt solar energy as a reliable alternative. The country imports millions of solar panels from China, which dominates global solar manufacturing and is helping drive Africa\u2019s renewable energy expansion. Entrepreneurs and creatives are benefiting from solar setups that ensure electricity continuity, while China also invests in local solar assembly to boost the transition.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to us on YouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/Zvqj30aIsgY\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/Zvqj30aIsgY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on:<\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cgtnafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cgtnafrica\/<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cgtnafrica\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/cgtnafrica<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cgtn_africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cgtn_africa\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frequent power outages in South Africa have pushed many small businesses to adopt solar energy as a reliable alternative. The country imports millions of solar panels from China, which dominates global solar manufacturing and is helping drive Africa\u2019s renewable energy expansion. Entrepreneurs and creatives are benefiting from solar setups that ensure electricity continuity, while China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8553,"featured_media":25895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5460,40452,2905],"tags":[5456,40451,2895],"class_list":["post-25894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-cgtn-africa","category-news","tag-africa","tag-cgtn-africa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}