The City of Cape Town awarded a tender for the Atlantis solar PV Project, the City’s first grid-connected 7MW solar plant.If all goes to plan, construction should start in August this year, with completion within 12 months. The facility forms part of the City’s plan to end loadshedding over time.
The tender was awarded to the Lesedi Technoserve Consortium for the engineering, procurement and construction of the facility.The City’s Mayco member for energy, councillor Beverley van Rheenen, says the project is currently in the detailed design phase and the first power to the grid is expected towards the end of 2025.
‘Apart from achieving our overarching vision of reducing the dependency on Eskom through our various programmes, and of enabling cleaner, more affordable sources of energy, we are also extremely focused on boosting our local economy to drive job creation. The Atlantis PV Project is an initiative of the City’s Energy Strategy 2050 vision of ‘Energy security for a prosperous Cape Town’.