South Africa’s Renergen has accused a photo voltaic power challenge of “unauthorised building” in a location the place the pure fuel producer holds a manufacturing proper.
Renergen “expressed issues” over the constructing of the Springbok Photo voltaic challenge “in an space designated for future pure fuel extraction”, the corporate stated in a press release issued by way of the JSE.
“Within the case of Springbok Photo voltaic challenge, building commenced with out our prior consent or a co-existence settlement,” Renergen stated, with out naming the developer.
SOLA Group lists the 150MW Springbok challenge in Virginia within the Free State on its web site as being underneath building. The corporate wasn’t instantly capable of remark.
The dispute highlights South Africa’s transition from dependence on coal to a wider vary of applied sciences together with pure fuel, nuclear and renewable power initiatives. The nation is forecast so as to add 50GW of wind and photo voltaic stations by 2030 to exchange a number of the technology from the world’s dirtiest fossil gas.
Renergen counts itself as contributing to the nation’s decarbonisation path with the manufacturing of pure fuel that’s wealthy in helium, which is “important in fabricating photo voltaic panels and wind generators”, CEO Stefano Marani stated within the assertion.
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Different photo voltaic amenities and battery power storage system amenities are deliberate inside Renergen’s manufacturing proper space, the corporate stated. — Paul Burkhardt, (c) 2024 Bloomberg LP
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