Telkom’s huge solar power plant – photos

[Kevin Lancaster]

Telkom’s huge solar power plant – photos

Telkom is getting ready to switch on the first phase of its new photovoltaic solar farm.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Bravo, many many more companies should start doing this.

 

[Xino_sam]

Hats off to Telkom!

 

[poorestguy]

i drive into the offices everyday and i think "this will be so easy to steal!!".

seriously that many solar panels all at the side of a major intersection - there's an SA story here waiting to happen

 

[Vrotappel]

I think this is quite brilliant.

 

[IdlePhaedrus]

i drive into the offices everyday and i think "this will be so easy to steal!!".

seriously that many solar panels all at the side of a major intersection - there's an SA story here waiting to happen

Still a good initiative regardless I think. Telkom will just have to beef up its security to match its investment.

Would have been nice if they had put in a tracking system to catch the best of the light between AM and PM and winter and summer.

I have looked into this briefly for my own PV installation, doing both AM and PM and Winter and Summer it would just be cheaper to install more panels, but for just Winter and Summer the cost might be effective on a single plane.

Essentially angling the panels to follow the average apogee vs perigree of the sun across the seasons.

 

[hj2k_x]

Excellent stuff, this

 

[Dan C]

Nice.

 

[StellenboschStudent]

i drive into the offices everyday and i think "this will be so easy to steal!!".

seriously that many solar panels all at the side of a major intersection - there's an SA story here waiting to happen

That amount of solar panels mean a heavy current flow. Good luck disconnecting a panel from that grid... oh wait, you can just do it at night...

 

[Creag]

A good initiative, which should be an example to others to follow.

 

[LaraC]

Nice and a cool idea to make provision for electric cars. Well done Telkom.

 

[Chevron]

Awesome initiative.

 

[Johand]

This is pretty awesome

I wondered what happened to the old Telkom? The new one is actually putting fibre in the ground, interconnecting with other ISPs, doing awesome stuff like this. They will almost make me happy/ to pay them some of my hard in cash once they provide fiber at my home (they are deploying 1 km away ... hopefully this year at my house!)

 

[ellyally]

Great stuff... and eskom loses a little more revenue

 

[wingnut771]

Still a good initiative regardless I think. Telkom will just have to beef up its security to match its investment.

Would have been nice if they had put in a tracking system to catch the best of the light between AM and PM and winter and summer.

I have looked into this briefly for my own PV installation, doing both AM and PM and Winter and Summer it would just be cheaper to install more panels, but for just Winter and Summer the cost might be effective on a single plane.

Essentially angling the panels to follow the average apogee vs perigree of the sun across the seasons.

Would have been easy to design the roof to pivot in the middle and adjust the outside beams to cover the seasons.

 

[Vice]

Hopefully as more organisations start doing, it will bring costs of electricity down.