{"id":11906,"date":"2024-10-07T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investcapetown.com\/?post_type=news-articles&#038;p=11906"},"modified":"2025-04-29T18:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:03:22","slug":"construction-begins-on-sas-first-city-run-solar-pv-plant-in-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"news-articles","link":"https:\/\/www.investcapetown.com\/ar\/news-articles\/construction-begins-on-sas-first-city-run-solar-pv-plant-in-atlantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction begins on SA\u2019s first City-run solar PV plant in Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><b><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;\">Construction begins on SA\u2019s first City-run solar PV plant in Atlantis<\/span><\/b><\/h6>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;\">Cape Town Mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis, and Energy Mayco Member, Alderman Xanthea Limberg, have turned the sod at the City\u2019s 7MW \u2013 10 MW Atlantis solar photovoltaic (PV) plant. Cape Town is the first metro in South Africa to start construction on its own solar PV plant as the City moves to diversify energy resources and become future-fit. Read more below:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What an exciting day this is for Cape Town and also for the people of Atlantis. This is one of our flagship projects in our priority programme to build a more secure energy future, with advanced plans to diversify energy sources for cleaner and more affordable energy. This is so vital as we face another massive Eskom price hike.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Construction on this R200m project is expected to take about a year, after which we\u2019ll connect the Atlantis solar plant to a nearby main substation to feed 7MW (and potentially scalable up to 10 MW) directly to the grid. It is the first utility-scale renewable energy project in Cape Town and will be owned and operated by the City. The first\u00a0power is expected to be delivered near the end of 2025. The idea is to potentially have a number of similar plants rolled out across the metro in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Not only are we breaking ground today for the construction of the solar PV plant, but I am thrilled to announce we\u2019ve just issued our very first 5MW battery storage tender. The battery storage facility will be constructed on this same site. We are leading the pack in South Africa and I am proud that our solar plant is the first one under construction in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This project forms part of our broader SA-record infrastructure investment of R39,5bn between July 2024 and June 2027. Thanks to our officials for their dedication and also thanks to the Atlantis community for the great support that has been shown for this project,\u2019 said Mayor Hill-Lewis.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The City awarded the tender for engineering, procurement and construction of the plant to the Lesedi Technoserve Consortium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018At the heart of the City\u2019s investment programme is the desire to boost our local Cape Town economy. Our Atlantis project will have significant benefits for the economy and job creation, increasing green jobs across various skill levels. We are working closely with all stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The City currently uses 75% of the tariff income from our electricity sales to buy Eskom power. With the continued Eskom-price escalations, the most recent being an almost 44% hike requested, we simply have to diversify the energy resources. These hikes are not sustainable for the City or our residents and we will continue to fight against these exorbitant increases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Atlantis site will also house our first utility-scale battery storage operation. The Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Project aims to serve as a pilot project to eventually incorporate energy storage within the City\u2019s network. By co-locating the battery system at the Atlantis PV plant, it allows the solar PV and BESS to operate in synergy as a hybrid plant. The BESS project will target a minimum rated power output of 5 MW, and have a useable energy storage capacity of 8 MWh. We ask potential tenderers to visit the City\u2019s tender portal for more information and to submit their application before 20 November 2024,\u2019 said Alderman Limberg.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>These projects form part of Cape Town\u2019s 2050 Energy Strategy: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/Energy_Strategy\" title=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/Energy_Strategy\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/Energy_Strategy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":11920,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[37,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11906","news-articles","type-news-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-economy","category-sustainability-resilience"],"acf":{"banner_title":"<em>News<\/em>","latest_news_blocks":"","key_banner_image":11920},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.1 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Atlantis is 1st City-Run Solar Plant | News | Invest Cape Town<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Read on about how Cape Town built South Africa&#039;s first city-run solar PV plant in Atlantis. 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