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  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Tongwei Solar officially enters South African panel market

    Tongwei Solar officially enters South African panel market Chinese photovoltaic (PV) solar cell manufacturer Tongwei Solar has officially entered the South African solar panel market through distribution partners Solarworld Africa and IBC Solar South Africa. Headquartered in Chengdu, Tongwei...
  3. Luis

    Northern Cape town with two globally rare solar power plants

    Northern Cape town with two globally rare solar power plants Pofadder in the Northern Cape, often regarded as South Africa's epitome of a remote, dusty "backwater" settlement, is the only town in the country to host two concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. The name Pofadder is Afrikaans for...
  4. Luis

    Northern Cape town with a rare type of solar power plant

    Northern Cape town with a rare type of solar power plant The Northern Cape town of Kathu might be far removed from the country's major metros, but it falls under a municipality with the highest average income in the country. Located about 200km along the N14 to the northeast of Upington, Kathu...
  5. Luis

    Rooftop solar user charged R380,000 by municipality, told "no issue with billing system"

    Rooftop solar user charged R380,000 by municipality, told "no issue with billing system" A Durban resident with a large rooftop solar installation recently received a municipal bill reflecting electricity charges of nearly R380,000. According to the resident, this amount of consumption was...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Big surge in floating solar farms

    Big surge in floating solar farms Putting solar panels on water to generate power sounded like a dangerous gimmick to Benedikt Ortmann when he first heard about the idea. “Every child knows electricity and water don’t mix,” said Ortmann, the top solar executive at Munich’s Baywa r.e., one of...
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