Growthpoint to install solar plant at Rustenburg Mall

21st October 2013

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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Growthpoint Properties plans to install a R10-million utility-scale 892-MWh-a-year solar power rooftop plant to power its Waterfall Mall, in Rustenburg.

The group signed an agreement with Solar Century Africa and State-owned power utility Eskom for the installation of the plant, which is capable of generating enough energy to power 750 average-sized homes and offset 928 t of carbon dioxide, by the end of November.

Eskom’s Integrated Demand Management division subsidised 20% of the capital cost as part its small-scale renewables programme.

“Growthpoint has piloted alternative energy generation at three of our office properties, but this is our first utility-scale development and the first at a shopping mall. It is some 13 times larger than the first rooftop solar plant Growthpoint tested,” Growthpoint head of utilites Essop Basha said.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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