By Staff Writer
Amazon Web Services has completed its first operational solar project in South Africa.
Located in the Northern Cape, the 10 megawatt (MW) solar project will supply renewable energy to AWS data centres and contribute to South Africaâs 2030 renewable energy goals, the group said in a statement on Thursday (4 November).
The solar project is expected to generate up to 28,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of renewable energy per year, which is equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of over 8,000 average South African homes, it said.
The project is a single-axis tracking plant consisting of over 24,000 bifacial solar modules covering an area of 20 hectares in the Northern Cape, where solar is a valuable energy resource, the group said…
