Regulatory clarity
We explain each city's solar approval and utility process in plain English so a homeowner can tell whether an installer is handling the local rules properly.
Four-city homeowner platform
Know your city's solar rules before you sign.
SolarChamps helps homeowners across four South African cities compare solar decisions with city-specific guidance on approval sequence, sign-off, export, metering, and installer risk.
Before you hire a solar installer, check the local rules that can change the quote, the approval path, and the compliance risk.
City-specific rules change the solar decision.
Approval, sign-off, and meter rules vary by metro.
Check the guide before you trust the quote.
What this platform is
Consumer-first solar compliance and installer intelligence for homeowners across Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, and Pretoria.
We help homeowners avoid illegal, non-compliant, incomplete, or misleading solar decisions before they sign with an installer.
Guide first, directory second. The point is to help a homeowner understand the city-specific decision before a quote turns into an expensive mistake.
How to use it
What the product is built to do
Pre-hire protection
The product is built around before-you-hire warning signals, the key question to ask, and the City rules that can delay, reject, or disconnect a system.
Verification context
Installer entries matter only when paired with compliance context, public trust signals, and signs that the installer can handle the real municipal process in that city.
Local specificity
The value comes from genuinely local rules. Johannesburg, Durban, Pretoria, and Cape Town do not behave the same, and the platform is built around those differences.
Live city guides
Choose the city that matches your home
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Cape Town
Check Cape Town's solar rules before you sign and compare installers with the compliance context that actually matters.
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Johannesburg
Find Johannesburg solar installers and review the City Power paperwork, export rules, meter changes and compliance questions to check before you sign.
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Durban
Check Durban's eThekwini approval rules before you sign: prior approval, CoC limits, ECSA commissioning sign-off, and meter migration traps.
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Pretoria
Check Pretoria's City of Tshwane approval rules before you sign: pre-approval, strict SLD standards, ECSA commissioning sign-off, export credits and hidden compliance costs.
Open Pretoria guideWhy city matters
The same solar quote can mean different risk in different metros.
Johannesburg changes the decision with Notification Number and meter implications. Durban changes it with prior approval and applicant identity. Pretoria changes it with SLD and sign-off friction. Cape Town changes it with its own approval and grid-tied treatment rules.
That is why the homepage no longer assumes one city should frame the whole platform.
What we are not
This is not generic directory copy
We are not a generic business directory.
We are not a lead form pretending to be an advice site.
We are not an official City body, regulator, or certification authority.
We are an independent consumer-first platform built on public information.