SunEdison also revealed that Boshop, in Free State province, will be the first utility-scale PV array in the country to use panels from a majority local-owned module makers, although it did not reveal the company’s identity.
The PV supply chain is having an easier time localising manufacturing in South Africa than wind, with a number of foreign module-assemblers setting up plants in the country, in addition to the start-up of some local firms, such as ARTsolar, which has a 75MW plant near Durban.
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