Project Category Southern Africa

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.

New Southern Energy developed and built a solar system for Howbill fruit farm, in the Koue Bokkeveld region of the Western Cape, in South Africa.
For Phase 1 of the project, NSE designed a 1.135 Megawatt Single Axis Solar PV Tracker system, which is intended to reduce their electricity bill utilizing the sun’s energy. The PV Tables rotate on a single-axis tracking system, using slew drive motors and a central torque tube, tracking the sun from east to west, resulting in a substantial increase of energy produced. The integration of this technology means that the system generates more energy than a fixed PV system. The design also provides for Diesel and solar co-generation and soft load transfer.
The system has already produced in excess of 103 MW of power, which is consumed directly. Phase 2 and Phase 3 are work in progress.

Intended to reduce the electricity consumption bill of the premises by utilising the available sun energy, this 1.1088 MWp grid tied solar system was installed at The Nicolway Mall, in Bryanston. The system consists of 2772 x 400Wp Canadian Solar PV modules and 33 x 27 kW Solaredge inverters. The performance of the system will be continuously monitored by New Southern Energy’s O&M department, and data will be easily accessible through an online portal.

Gogo Fruits operate a fresh produce packing facility in Mable Hall, Limpopo, South Africa where energy is needed to run cooling and processing equipment. New Southern Energy developed a rooftop solar plant to add renewable power capacity to the facility, to reduce electricity costs and to help ensure uninterrupted operations.

Golden Arrow is a transport bus service depot with ample underutilized roof space in Cape Town. The roof space available made this a great site for a grid-tied solution whereby the client is able to feed back to the grid. As a result of this, council granted the client permission to erect the plant and registered them on a new grid-feed tariff for small scale embedded generators.

Warburton Saagmeule operates an industrial sawmill operation just outside Ermelo, Mpumalanga, the province in which the bulk of South Africa’s forestry plantations are situated. With various kinds of machinery, the facility saws logs into specific formatted shapes as well as into planks and boards. The sawmill is equipped with cutting, planing, molding, tenoning, and other machinery for timber finishing processes.
New Southern Energy designed and a built a sophisticated 831.6 kWp single-axis tracking Solar PV system for Warburton Saagmeule. In this system, a set of ground-mounted trackers direct the solar panels toward the sun. These devices change their orientation throughout the day to follow the sun's path from east to west, using drive motors, enabling the solar panels to capture as much solar energy as possible.

A shopping mall situated in Piet Retief, 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 +30% of it’s total demand through solar with an ongoing O&M contract ensuring continuous system performance and optimization.

A shopping mall situated in Limpopo, South Africa. The site requires a renewable energy system to reduce grid consumption and carbon emissions during the daytime. NSE provided a full EPC/development service implementing a complete grid-tied solar system.