KACO make contribution to South Africa's energy independence.
Since March 2014, 900 Powador 39.0 TL3 have been working in two tracker-parks with a total output of 33 MW for the South African Independent Power Producers Procurement Program.
One in the South African Province of North Cape, one hour north of Douglas, which is a 22 MW solar power plant. This project, as well as a second 11 MW park nearby named Greefspan, was conceived by Tenesol South Africa, now a subsidiary of Sunpower.
In March both PV parks went into operation. The French company decided on KACO new energy inverters to supply power to the grid from 138,000 Tenesol type TE 240 modules mounted on uniaxial trackers. A total of 900 Powador 39.0 TL3 units harvest the sun in both utility plants which are part of the South African Government"˜s Independent Power Producers Procurement Program.
The areas surrounding both plants do not really correspond to the pictures of the South African coastline that one knows from travel brochures. Here, further inland it is hot, much drier and therefore very dusty "“ no picnic for people or inverters. Whereas the former know how to help themselves with water, a Powador must make do with dry technology: specially-tuned software from the research and development department together with special filters from ebm-pabst, a long-standing partner of the Neckarsulm PV Company in matters relating to cooling.
After accompanying the technical commissioning, KACO new energy South Africa will also be carrying out "Operations and Maintenance" to ensure full power in the new energy era at the Cape.
Overseeing the installation of the Powador 39.0 TL3: Anton de Swardt, Divisional Head of Technical, Services and Support with KACO new energy South Africa.
Picture: © KACO new energy GmbH
