Cape Town green energy companies provide snapshot of industry’s potential
16 September 2021
The three companies – Solar MD, Scatec, and SOLA – are some of the leading producers of renewable energy solutions in the country, and have all witnessed booming growth since Alderman Vos’s first visit to their facilities in early 2019.
‘The investment and job creation opportunities presented by the green economy are massive. In the green energy space alone, according to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, if South Africa builds 5GW of renewable energy per annum, this could unlock nearly R500-billion in investments over the next decade, while creating 50 000 jobs per annum in the construction and operation of wind and solar plants,’ said Alderman Vos.
SOLA, Scatec and Solar MD’s progress provides snapshots of the industry’s rapid expansion in the last decade.
Solar MD, which specialises in commercial and industrial Lithium-Ion battery storage solutions, has doubled in factory size and is working its way to becoming Africa’s first ‘gigafactory’.