Construction World October 2018

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

SAVING 60% on electricity bill

C ompleted in July this year, the new system will more than halve the hard- ware company’s electricity bill. “The key factors that we considered during the design phase of this project was to reduce their electrical bill by 60% and reduce diesel fuel usage during power outages. I am pleased that we have met these objectives for Eureka,” says Nathan Bergemann, Director of Hanonox. He adds that due to its numerous financial and environmental benefits, the demand for renewable energy is on the rise. As a result, alternative power solutions are becoming increasingly affordable and accessible, including finance options with zero capital investment or risk – offering immediate bottom-line savings for South African businesses.  Johannesburg based turnkey energy solutions company, Hanonox, has recently completed a 312 kWp solar project for major South African hardware manufacturer, Eureka DIY Solutions. The project is a combination of two systems – 92 kWp and 220 kWp – generated by advanced JA Solar modules and Huawei inverters installed at the 35 000 m factory in Roodepoort.

About Hanonox Hanonox is a turnkey power solutions company, specialising in solar, diesel generators and static ups solutions. Hanonox incorporates technical expertise, solution selling and leading technologies to provide the best turnkey solution for any power problem – minimising downtime, and increasing productivity, profit and security.

FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO INFLUENCE ELECTRICITY INVESTMENTS TO 2030 Energy Minister Jeff Radebe has revealed the long-awaited Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) update recently, appealing to the public and interested parties to take the final opportunity to influence the country’s energy roadmap to 2030.

SAWEA congratulates the Department of Energy for ensuring that the draft IRP2018 places emphasis on ‘least-cost’ options to 2030 with significant new wind, solar PV, and gas allocations. “By 2030, wind should make up just over 15% of the country’s power mix, assuming that all 8 100 MW of new procurement is achieved by then, bring- ing onshore wind to 11 442 MW in total,” said Brenda Martin, CEO of SAWEA. Martin added, “Energy investment choices made in the IRP 2018 update will have long-term effects for the economy as a whole, and the successful, timeous achieve- ment of the Energy transition. It is therefore critical that public inputs call for the final- ised Integrated Resource Plan to be based

on choices that allow for transition-related investment certainty and job-creating local manufacturing growth in particular.” The Association has asked for clarity on the planned sequence of Wind investments which currently suggest a three-year gap in procurement between 2022 and 2024. The Industry cannot deliver the many socio-eco- nomic benefits and the scale of investment associated with Wind power supply, with a stop-start approach. SAWEA notes with interest the Depart- ment of Energy’s proposed further areas of analysis, particularly those relating to gas supply options, linked to a renewable energy (RE) and gas dominated supply mix post-2030; the appropriate level of renewable

energy penetration, which includes further work on RE integration effects on the grid; as well as a socio-economic impact analysis of decommissioning of coal-fired power plants that would have reached their end of life. Finally, the Association supports the Minister’s desire that Cabinet adopt the ‘IRP 2018’ which will serve as South Africa’s electricity generation roadmap for the next 12 years, as soon as the comment period is concluded.  By 2030, wind should make up just over 15% of the country’s power mix, assuming that all 8 100 MW of new procurement is achieved by then, bringing onshore wind to 11 442 MW in total.

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