system32
Executive Member
Why use desert when you can use a roof.Just looks like such a waste. All that land for so little result? Meh.
Works for me 85% of the time.
Why use desert when you can use a roof.Just looks like such a waste. All that land for so little result? Meh.
I hear Lupus now - "but what do you do at night huh, huh, there's no solar at night!"Why use desert when you can use a roof.
Works for me 85% of the time.
What else can you do with that land ?Just looks like such a waste. All that land for so little result? Meh.
85% of 24h - I have 14h storage.I hear Lupus now - "but what do you do at night huh, huh, there's no solar at night!"
For me, works for me 100% of the time. I no haz Eskom at all. Offgrid.
The annual energy output is tiny in comparison that’s why it’s relevant. The O&M overhead at that scale due to the number of panels (millions) and the surface area would be insane.
You would have to build the De Aar PV plant 42.7 times as big as it is today just to match the annual electricity output of Koeberg. Electricity that we all need.
The PV plant is a good effort nevertheless.
It's expensive, but does not matter as Eskom pays for kWh delivered. That's the beauty of IPP.4.8 Billion Rand for 500000 panels.
That works out at R9600 per panel.
Rather expensive I would say
Just looks like such a waste. All that land for so little result? Meh.
Why use desert when you can use a roof.
Works for me 85% of the time.
4.8 Billion Rand for 500000 panels.
That works out at R9600 per panel.
Rather expensive I would say
Going to guess these aren’t normal sized 500ish watt panels but something much bigger.
At least I would hope so.
175MW with over half a million modules seems like 335w panels.
4.8 Billion Rand for 500000 panels.
That works out at R9600 per panel.
Rather expensive I would say
R4.8bn was the total project cost, not just panels which on big projects are only a fraction of the infrastructure. That includes site preparation, installation, wiring, inverters, etc.
Yeah that’s bullshit pricing then.
Should be 1/3rd of that or even less considering the bulk.
Dude, there are a million costs over and above the panels themselves that have to be factored in, they don’t just fall into the ground ready to use. For example I’ve been on projects where logistics alone can take up to 25% of the contract sum, never mind things like km’s of copper earthing cables and producing concrete in the middle of the desert. And in South Africa of course local content requirements are so high that foreign companies need a big team of lawyers just to understand BEE never mind complying with it. And that’s before you have to select and train and of course pay local people to be crane drivers and bricklayers etc etc. And I’m really just scratching the surface here.
We could have given it to Julius and tell him it's the stolen land.The land isn’t being used either which way, so nothing is lost.
I mean jeez De Aar has been dying for decades since trains stopped being a thing, now it’s almost relevant again.
I worry that people assume renewable electricity is reliable electricity.For you it doesnt... For everyone else it means less loadshedding probably
I worry that people assume renewable electricity is reliable electricity.