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INDUSTRY NEWS
Commercial and industrial rooftop PV
demand increases
s South Africans continue to
endure eight or more hours
Aper day without electricity,
more and more businesses and
residential estates are turning to
rooftop solar to meet their electricity
requirements and mitigate the
devastating effects of load shedding.
The more recently reported
projects include Dunlop Belting
Products, Africa’s largest conveyor
belt manufacturer that manufactures
over 500 km of conveyor belting per
annum.
The company will now power Dunlop Belting Products
its production facility in Benoni,
Gauteng, by means of an 802 kW In other news, the shopping mall with largest solar rooftop PV plant in Africa is
solar PV system. Not only will the Cornubia Mall, Blackburn Estate, Mount Edgecombe, KZN. This solar-power plant
rooftop PV system mitigate production has a DC capacity of 5,25 MW and uses 39 inverters. The shops in the mall are able
interruptions caused by continuous to operate normally during periods of load shedding, saving jobs and creating an
cycles of load shedding, but it will improved customer experience.
also eliminate more than 1200 tonnes The demand for solar PV in commercial and industrial applications is expected
of CO 2 every year because of its to ramp exponentially as Eskom’s power-generating units continue to fail and load
commitment to renewable energy. shedding Stages increase.
Cornubia Mall
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