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Shoprite group rolls out electricity wheeling at a third site

Image of Shoprite's Brackenfell site

Shoprite's Brackenfell site

25th July 2024

By: Irma Venter

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

     

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The Shoprite retail group has started wheeling renewable electricity at its home office in Brackenfell, Cape Town, making it the company’s third site to implement this energy solution.

Wheeling involves the buying and selling of electricity between private parties, using an existing grid to transport power from where it is generated to an end-user.

This creates greater access to renewable energy and contributes to relieving the country’s electricity crisis.

Excess electricity generated by Checkers Hyper Brackenfell at Fairbridge Mall is purchased by Enpower Trading, a National Energy Regulator of South Africa-licensed electricity trader, which then facilitates the sale of that electricity back to the Shoprite group for use at the retailer’s adjacent home office campus.

“In 2023, our consumption of renewable energy nearly doubled to 103 234 MWh from 54 138 MWh in the previous year,” says Shoprite chief sustainability officer Sanjeev Raghubir.

“With renewable electrons now flowing through Cape Town’s energy grid, we are another step closer to our climate goals of being carbon neutral by 2050.”

The City of Cape Town aims to reduce its reliance on the national grid as the energy market steadily grows with the emergence of utility-scale independent power producers and small-scale power generators selling their excess power to the city and other customers through embedded generation and wheeling.

The Shoprite Group's electricity wheeling efforts build on prior initiatives stretching as far back as 2016, when it began wheeling electricity at Checkers Newton Park in Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape.

In 2022, Checkers Sitari and Sitari Village Mall near Somerset West became one of the first supermarkets and shopping centres in South Africa to operate entirely on renewable energy from wind and solar sources.

 

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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