Project Category Southern Africa

The Gold Reef City Theme Park in Johannesburg is an award-winning family entertainment destination that’s been voted South Africa’s coolest theme park, and welcomes thousands of local and international visitors each year. The theme park offers 16 thrilling rides, seven family rides, 21 kids rides, Jump City Trampoline Park, an underground mine tour, a variety of dining options and retail stores, and many other attractions.

The solar system at this site made excellent use of available land space where our ground mounted carport installation will provide the additional benefit of shaded parking.

Bushvalley chickens run a largescale chicken farm and abattoir in Limpopo South Africa. This industry-leading business is run in a sustainable way, focusing on eliminating waste and preserving the environment. Continuously pushing the boundaries of efficiency to ensure affordable pricing to the public/market sector, the solar power generated by this solar system will enable the company to reach efficiencies while maintaining its quality and freshness standards.

Emnotweni Casino, in Mbombela, South Africa, offers an exhilarating gaming experience with a mix of slot machines and table games. Complemented by a vibrant entertainment offering, diverse dining options, and proximity to scenic attractions, it’s a premier destination for leisure and fun in Mpumalanga.
For this site, we combined a roof top and ground mounted installation to maximise the space available and provide the additional benefit of shaded parking.

A subsidiary of The Karsten Group, Karsten Fruit Packers specialises in fruit packing and cold storage. KFP packs pears, apples, and grapes from January to September, handling around 35 000 bulk bins of fruit every year. Located in the Western Cape, South Africa, the facility maintains the highest standards in fruit packing and cooling, and has acquired GFSI recognised certifications. An uninterrupted supply of energy is essential to maintaining quality standards and productivity.

New Southern Energy produced a single axis tracker system, with generator integration for this site. The system features JA Solar High Efficiency Poly Modules and Sungrow SG110CX string inverters with MPPT trackers that are equally split in power input capacity. The modules rotate during the day, following the sun, for maximum output and move into a stowed position (almost horizontal to ground) at night.

Tiaan Kruger Boerdery is a leading citrus producer in Limpopo, South Africa, that also produces other crops, and farms with livestock.

This BESS solar system integrates with a Solar MD 2.431 MWh BESS solution and a 590KVa generator to ensure a seamless power supply to this site.

Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA), a bottling partner to the Coca-Cola parent company, manufactures, packages, merchandises and distributes the world-renowned branded beverages to the organization’s vast network of vending partners. Worldwide, the organization is committed to sustainable practices and monitors its environmental impact closely.

In 2018, CCBSA embarked on a process of installing solar systems at its 11 bottling plants across South Africa, through a competitive solar EPC firm. However, after commencing work on four sites none of which had reached practical completion, the EPC supplier exited the agreement.

NSE was onboarded to this project to complete the four brownfields sites and install the seven greenfields sites from scratch. All eleven sites are rooftop developments, with grid-tied connections. Certain sites have generator integration. All of these sites have been successfully completed.

Phase 1

A Commercial Fruit Farm in the Witzenberg Valley, Die Eike needed to supplement their energy requirement due to limited availability in the region. In phase 1 we provided them a 702KWp Solar PV plant with reticulation.

Phase 2

As a part of the greater proposal to extend the grid-tied PV solar energy system already installed, an expanded plant was proposed for Die Eike farm. The soler systems voltage was stepped up to medium voltage (MV). The same size as phase 1, phase 2 is located on the east side of the farm. Further, phase 2 has the same orientation.

NSE has developed two solar systems at two Tsogo Sun properties: Silverstar Casino in Gauteng and Garden Route Casino in the Western Cape.

Silverstar:

Nestled in the foot of the Magalies Mountains in Krugersdorp, South Africa, Silverstar casino and entertainment features a dazzling casino, live entertainment theatre, outdoor piazza complete with a big screen, cinema complex, ten-pin bowling alley, Laser Tag centre, health spa and games arcade. Open seven days a week, the complex needs continuous energy to ensure smooth operations of its various offerings. New Southern Energy has now completed a grid-tied solar system in three phases. Phase 1 (rooftop): 500,5 kWp, Phase 2 (ground mount): 540,96 kWp, Phase 3 (solar carport): 1064 kWp.

Garden Route:

Situated in Mossel Bay, in South Africa’s Western Cape Province, the Garden Route Casino provides leisure seekers with gaming, entertainment, dining & event experiences. With a fully-fledged casino and hotel, other facilities include a spa and golf course. New Southern Energy initially designed a 219.31 kWp PV Solar system that is synchronized with the property’s 800 kVA diesel generator. The 482 x 455 Wp solar panels are neatly placed on the various sections of the hotel and casino building roofs. A phase 2 installation featured solar models in a solar carport, adding 366.24kWp to the site’s capacity.

A shopping mall situated in Pretoria, South Africa, the site required a renewable energy system to reduce grid consumption and carbon emissions during the daytime. N.S.E. provided a full EPC/development service implementing a complete grid-tied solar solution. The site now supplements +20% of it’s total demand through solar with an ongoing O&M contract ensuring continuous system performance and optimization.

ANB Investments Portfolio (Indigo Fruits) run various fruit farms and processing facilities across the Mpumulanga and Limpopo provinces in South Africa. These include the BBI fruit packhouse in Hoedspruit, the Twypack fruit packing facility in the Mbombela area, the Du Roi Laboratory in Letsitele and Naranja fruit packing facility in the Burgersfort Lydenburg area. Across all of these facilities, energy is needed for cooling and processing equipment. New Southern Energy installed a combination of rooftop and ground-mounted systems to reduce grid reliance and lower energy costs, which will contribute to ensuring that the quality of the fruit is maintained.