Developed on a remote site 50 km south-west of Prieska, in the Northern Cape, the 86 MW Mulilo-Sonnedix-Prieska photovoltaic (PV) project was connected to the national grid in October, on schedule and within budget, thus achieving full grid code compliance in good time for commercial operation.
The PV installation, which took 14 months to complete, stretches across 125 ha and is valued at R1.4-billion.
Greg Austin, MD of juwi Renewable Energies, the Mulilo-Sonnedix-Prieska project’s developer, says it is the biggest solar PV engineering, procurement and construction project delivered in such a remote location by the company. “We have now entered the operations and maintenance phase and look forward to ensuring the guaranteed performance on behalf of the owners.”
He adds that juwi Renewable Energies has received “excellent feedback” from State-owned power utility Eskom’s grid access unit and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s renewable energy technical evaluation committee regarding its grid code compliance planning and execution.
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The PV installation, which took 14 months to complete, stretches across 125 ha and is valued at R1.4-billion.
Greg Austin, MD of juwi Renewable Energies, the Mulilo-Sonnedix-Prieska project’s developer, says it is the biggest solar PV engineering, procurement and construction project delivered in such a remote location by the company. “We have now entered the operations and maintenance phase and look forward to ensuring the guaranteed performance on behalf of the owners.”
He adds that juwi Renewable Energies has received “excellent feedback” from State-owned power utility Eskom’s grid access unit and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s renewable energy technical evaluation committee regarding its grid code compliance planning and execution.
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