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Milestone: Juwi Exceeds 3,000 Megawatts of Installed Photovoltaic Capacity

Wörrstadt, Germany - The South African subsidiary of the German company Juwi has been able to complete three large solar parks (Bokamoso, Droogfontain 2 and Waterloo) in the past few months despite the Corona lockdown.

The last one, the Waterloo solar park, with an output of 86 MW, successfully was successfully connected to the grid in November 2020. The solar power plant is located around ten kilometers outside the city of Vryburg (North-West Province) and supplies clean electricity for 84,000 households. With the commissioning, not only the construction of the portfolio is completed, with this solar park Juwi also exceeds the mark of 3,000 megawatts of installed PV capacity. The Waterloo solar park is part of a 250 MW solar portfolio that Juwi built for the South African insurance group Old Mutual (Old Mutual Alternative Investments). The portfolio consists of the Waterloo (86 MW) solar park near Vryburg, Bokamoso (78 MW) near the town of Leeudoringstad, also in the North West Province, and Droogfontain 2 (86 MW), located near the diamond city of Kimberly in the North Cape Province. Construction started in spring 2019.

Political dispute over - market for renewable energies is gaining momentum again

The signing of power purchase agreements between the state-owned energy supplier Eskom and several independent power producers (IPP) in April 2018 marked the end of more than two years of efforts to further expand renewable energies in the Cape, Juwi announced. Since then, the South African renewable energy market has picked up speed again.

"I'm even more pleased that our colleagues from South Africa have made this significant contribution to our track record with the construction of three utility-scale solar parks. After all, they had to wait more than two years until politicians settled their internal differences in terms of renewable energies", says Stephan Hansen, COO and member of the juwi Management Board

Juwi will also participate with new projects in the upcoming tender rounds for renewable energies in South Africa.



Source: IWR Online, 03 Dec 2020

 


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