Solar PV is a promising technology to help businesses achieve energy efficiency and clean technology objectives with one company looking to help expand PV for South African SMEs. Schletter is striving to drive this movement by assisting SMEs in installing rooftop PV systems.
Schletter South Africa head electrical engineer Abdul-Khaaliq Mohamed noted that as prices dropped for solar technologies, the market is steadily emerging as one of the country’s fastest growing. Just a few years ago, bigger corporates in the country started the conversation around solar energy by installing solar panels on their vacant roof top space, to supplement some of the base load energy for running their offices. More recently – and clearly now picking up speed as a developing trend in South Africa – is the growing number of SMEs and industries using solar energy.
Schletter provides specialized carport solutions for industrial (as well as residential and commercial applications) which serve the dual purposes of protecting your vehicle and gathering solar energy, which can be fed into the user’s energy system. A transition to solar can save businesses approximately 30% in overhead electrical running costs by swopping some of their energy imported from the grid (fuelled primarily by dirty coal) with clean solar PV energy.
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