The large solar electricity plant at DRDGOLD’s Ergo gold tailings retreatment operation has received a formal grid connection certificate from Eskom, Ergo reported ahead of flying journalists over the operation’s expansive array of solar panels and batteries, which provide a collective 187 MW of installed capacity. “We run the plant off the batteries whilst being fully grid connected the whole time,” Ergo COO Jaco Schoeman explained as we helicoptered over 133 000 solar panels and 43 batteries that make up the R2.8-billion in-house, on-balance-sheet Tshedza solar farm - Tshedza being Venda for ‘let there be light’. (See attached Creamer Media pictures).
