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CCG Gets Powered By Nature                                                                   Carbon Footprint





             ver the last decade, CCG has been supplying the ever-growing global   been calculated that the cost of the installation will pay for itself within
             renewable energy market with cable glands and junction boxes.   two-and-a-half years. The other benefits are increased energy security
       OSome of the significant renewable projects supplied recently include:  of the manufacturing plant and an enhanced ISO 14001 Environmental
                                                               Certification rating by significantly reducing CCG’s carbon footprint.
        •  120 MW Shell Energy’s Gangarri Solar Farm, Australia.
        •  43 MW Ratch Australia’s Collinsville Solar Farm, Australia.  For more information, please contact CCG, Phone 011 394-2020,
        •  143 MW Sun Metal Solar farm, Australia.             info@ccgcablegland.com, www.ccgcablegland.co.za
        •  116 MW Ross River Solar Farm, Australia.                    Quarter A4 130x100 March 2022 R1.pdf   1   18/02/2022   08:45
        •  100 MW Chinchilla Solar Farm, Australia.
        •  100 MW KaXu Solar one CSP Project, Northern Cape.
        •  96 MW Jasper Solar Project, Northern Cape.

        CCG also recently supplied one of the largest offshore windfarm projects
        currently under construction. Situated 27 km off the coast of Scotland in
        the North Sea, the £3 billion Seagreen project, which is a joint venture
        between SSE and TOTAL Energy, will have 114 wind turbines with a
        combined rating of at 1075 MW and will supply enough renewable energy
        to meet the needs of the equivalent of a million Scottish homes.
           With the increasing worldwide move to renewable energy, together
        with load shedding being experienced in South Africa, CCG took the
        decision to not only be a supplier to the renewable energy sector but also
        to become a customer, user and producer.
           In August of 2021 CCG engaged the services of Wade Walker Solar to
        do a full assessment of its manufacturing plant in Kempton Park, as to the
        suitability of installing a solar PV generation system.
           By using figures for the existing energy load profile, historical electricity
        consumption data, the available area  for PV panel installation, and
        historical averages on the amount of available sun for the area, Wade
        Walker Solar proposed an installation of 1274 PV panels which would
        produce 574 KW DC converted to 500 KW AC. This would be enough for
        the whole factory consisting of 60 CNC machines, three plating plants, a
        reverse osmosis water treatment plant and 30 moulding presses to run off-
        grid for about six hours a day.
           Since commissioning the PV installation in mid-November, CCG has seen
        an immediate significant reduction in grid supplied electricity and it has



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