Assessing the Feasibility and the Potential of Implementing Solar Water Heaters in Dimbaza, a Township in Eastern Cape, South Africa
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solar water heater; techno-economic viability; simple payback period; walk-through energy audits; secondary and historical data; energy saving;All these keywords.
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