Cavendish Glen is a shopping centre in the Johannesburg metropolitan area. The centre provides the surrounding neighbourhood with various conveniences from grocery and clothing stores to fast food and lifestyle services. Energy is needed to keep the centre operation during load-shedding and to reduce the mall's carbon footprint.
The Goosen Family started farming on Jagerskraal, Prince Alfred’s Hamlet during 1861 and is one of the oldest farming families in the area. Farming on both sides of the Skurweberg Mountain range has the benefit of two climate zones and the opportunity to grow a wider range of varieties from early to late season.
New Southern Energy designed a 161,28 kWp PV Solar system for Goosen Boerdery that includes 384 solar modules, 4 grid-tied string inverters, 192 optimisers and one tie-in point to the site’s low voltage network, as well as a control and monitoring system. A 300 kVA Diesel generator was installed to supply the facility with power during loadshedding.
Graaff Fruit is a company entrenched in traditional values, with contemporary ideas. The business has several properties, producing apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums, pears and apples and packing produce.
New Southern Energy produced a solar plant to off-set the electricity usage at the packing facility in Ceres, to decrease costs and reduce carbon emissions.
A large wholesale mall, China Mall occupies 100,000 m2 of land and has nearly 2000 parking bays. Its large actual surface area reaching 30,000 m2 made the site a great candidate for on-grid energy. Attracted to the good return on investment provided by a solar solution, this client opted for nearly 556 kWp of roof top solar, granting them a nice 23% ROI.
Since their establishment in 1954, Chiltern Farms have been growing and packing fruit for both the local and the international market. Having grown steadily over the last 6 decades, the Chiltern Family is now an enterprise. To meet the energy demands of their operations, they opted for a grid-tied renewable energy system. At 530,64 kWp, this roof-top system will be contributing to 15-20% of their overall energy demands, helping to reduce their carbon emissions and save on OPEX.
Frupak runs an apple packing facility in the Prince Albert Hamlet in the Western Cape. The premises house a large packing warehouse with two packing lines as well as forty cooling rooms, to service the apple farming industry in the province.
The packing operation runs for ten months of the year, in line with apple harvests and trade. Naturally a facility of this nature uses a high amount of electricity to ensure that quality control and minimal waste. The solar system aims to reduce electricity costs and ensure seamless operation throughout the year.
Doornkraal Agri is a father and son team that have a focus on perfection when it comes to producing the best fruit and vegetables in the Western Cape’s Ceres Valley. Established in the Witzenberg valley in 1990, Alexander & George Gibson built their farms into a world-class Agri Enterprise. They have since added export class packing and cold storage facilities that ensures that all fruit packed at Doornkraal Agri reach the consumer as fresh as the moment it was picked. In order to reduce their OPEX and establish a more secure and sustained energy approach, a phased approach was proposed for them. The first phase will be a 506.88kWp rooftop system with diesel generator integration and soft load transfer operation. The system’s focus is to reduce the electrical bill by utilising the available sun energy and combat production interruptions and loss caused by load shedding.
A shopping mall situated in Mpumalanga, South Africa, the site required 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 solution. The site now supplements 24% of it’s total demand through solar with an ongoing O&M contract ensuring continuous system performance and optimization.
This system was designed and constructed to generate renewable power by harnessing solar energy and converting it to AC power. The 266kWp grid-tied solar plant is comprised of 768 panels mounted to a Pakhuis roof as well as 39 panels mounted on the Padstal roof. The renewable energy system saves the client 50-55% on their electricity bill and reduces their reliance on the national utility grid.
Situated in the Cederberg Wilderness, Cederberg Wines fall within the worlds six floral kingdoms and produce award-winning South African wines from the highest lying vineyards. Boasting a cellar that has rapidly leapt to prominence in the South African wine industry, the farm opted for a photo-voltaic solar energy system to reduce their electrical bill. With a production of about 50% of their energy coming from the sun, this grid-tied rooftop solar system is both saving them on OPEX and reducing their carbon footprint.
