This floating solar farm at the Kraaifontein wastewater treatment facility will be a testbed for the future of South Africa's electricity generation.The city of Cape Town has installed a floating power generation system on one of its sewage dams to test the efficiency of such solar farms in stopping water from evaporating while generating clean energy.
The city said on Wednesday that it wanted to own 50MW of renewable energy generation by 2030 and that it aims to be carbon neutral by 2050. The farm includes a floating solar panel array as well as a ground-mounted solar panel system to determine evaporation savings and relative energy generation performance of floating solar photovoltaic technology.
“Given that vacant land in the city is very expensive and rooftop solar PV systems are relatively small, Cape Town aims to explore floating solar PV systems for larger-scale solar PV installations as part of its pioneering work to diversify the energy mix, to lead by example and to take climate action leadership,” said Maxiti.
“In following this trend, we have identified significant potential within SA for this promising technology which has the dual benefit of producing power while reducing evaporation and preserving land for other commercial use,” he said.
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