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Publish Date : 27-Feb-2016

Solar energy equipment supplier, ARTsolar has announced addressing the round 3 deadline of the SA Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement programme.

On Wednesday, ARTsolar said, it has recently completed production of the final consignment of locally produced photovoltaic (PV) modules for the REIPPP programme.

The company's director, Derek Lawrance, added, These PV modules were manufactured at the ARTsolar plant in KwaZulu-Natal [province], for the Mulilo Sonnedix Prieska PV solar plant project. This plant, which supplies the electricity it produces to the Eskom Kromos Substation in the Northern Cape, is the first 75MW AC size REIPPP project to have PV modules produced by a South African owned company.

The company said, following the win of the Q1 2015 bid, the firm expanded its facility programme to meet the production requirements of the project.

The company made a substantial investment in new machinery and increased the total floor space of the New Germany plant from 3,500 m to 10,000 m. The single day shift operation was increased to a 24 hour/six day schedule and we expanded our team to 200 staff," Lawrance added.

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