Nestlé adds 966kW solar plant to Cremora and Maggi 2-minute noodles factory

Hanno Labuschagne

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Pegasus said:
That is a lot of space needed for just 15% of their power.

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They didn't get the memo...

New Research Says Vertical Solar Panels Have Improved Performance - CleanTechnica

Researchers in Germany claim that vertical solar panels can produce electricity over more hours of the day.
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Researchers in Germany claim vertical solar panels may be better than horizontal solar panels. Typically, solar panels are mounted horizontally and oriented toward the south to get maximum exposure to the sun as it travels across the sky. Instead of lying flat, they are angled at between 20 and 35 degrees, depending on how far from the Equator they are located. There are complex mathematical formulas that tell solar farm developers the precise angle the panels should be mounted at in Pensacola, Peoria, or Penticton. There are tracking systems that can move the panels during the day to follow the sun, but they are expensive and need regular maintenance.

But what if conventional wisdom is wrong? Researchers at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences claim that mounting bifacial solar panels with one side facing east and the other facing west would produce more renewable electricity and reduce one of the side effects of traditional solar energy farms — an abundance of electricity at midday and not enough in the morning or afternoon. Their study was published in the August, 2022 edition of the journal Smart Energy.
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Good to see that there are still big companies in Babelegi, I thought it has long become a dump like other former Bophuthatswana industries.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
TBF 1MW is far from the 1,000MW per stage of load shedding that we need...
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Lupus said:
Also it's 1MW of solar so I'm reality 25 to 45% of that maybe
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Yes it is true. But the future of energy is distributed vs the old model of centralised. Instead of big projects we will see a LOT of small projects rapidly deployed - a windfarm here, a solar plant there a battery somewhere else. And the individual numbers will look puny but the aggregate will stun you!
 
Johand said:
Yes it is true. But the future of energy is distributed vs the old model of centralised. Instead of big projects we will see a LOT of small projects rapidly deployed - a windfarm here, a solar plant there a battery somewhere else. And the individual numbers will look puny but the aggregate will stun you!
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That's why we've been moaning about the poor incentive schemes to get people to feed excess solar power to the grid. It will likely end up costing you money instead of saving you money. And even if you do save, it's so little that it's not worth the effort...
 
Johand said:
Yes it is true. But the future of energy is distributed vs the old model of centralised. Instead of big projects we will see a LOT of small projects rapidly deployed - a windfarm here, a solar plant there a battery somewhere else. And the individual numbers will look puny but the aggregate will stun you!
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Yeah that makes so much sense... Let's have more expensive infrastructure to get that intermittent power
 
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