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oing ‘green’ is the subject
on everyone’s lips globally.
In South Africa, renewable
energy currently makes up less than
five percent of the country’s energy
resources. Most of South Africa’s pow-
er continues to be provided by coal.
However, the Department of Energy’s
Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) com-
mits to accelerating the local industry
and increasing the production of
solar and wind energy.
According to global manage-
ment consultancy firmMcKinsey and
Company’s Brighter Africa Report,
sub-Saharan Africa is ‘starved for
electricity’ due to an underdeveloped
power sector, with electricity short-
ages stunting GDP growth potential.
What is required, it states, is ‘gov-
ernment and investors to develop the
continent’s huge electricity capacity’.
The report highlights the fact that
the African continent has 13% of the
world’s population and a staggering
now have no access to electricity.
The green revolution continues to
grow and is attracting the attention
and support of major developers
nationwide. According to Build Africa
Chief Executive Officer, Miles Oates, it
is a trend on the rise with developers
eager to create a product that stands
out above the others, in an increas-
ingly eco-conscious world, whilst still
creating additional revenue streams.
Build Africa Corporation has sup-
plied the Power Up Complete Power
Supply to a housing development in
the Western Cape, which will allow
residents to become almost au-
tonomous instead of relying on the
national energy supplier, Eskom. The
Power Up units were found to reduce
electricity bills by up to 75%.
Oates says that the systemproduc-
es up to three times the daily power
output of other deep cycle systems
and the Crystal battery banks are
known to last up to five times longer.
“We hope that this is a stepping
stone to many more eco-friendly,
sustainable, developments. The
product harvests power from a vari-
ety of sources such as solar panels,
windmills and generators or the grid.
This kind of mass implementation of
green, renewable energy is very new
in the residential market locally, says
Oates.
The Power Up units, he says, is a
holistic system it can simply reduce
your reliance on unreliable providers
and drastically reduce energy bills.
Oates recently supplied Power Up
units at the Lesbos refugee camp for
the United Nations tent structures.
Developments going off the grid