Shoprite Group implementing electricity wheeling at Cape Town office
Retailer the Shoprite Group is wheeling renewable electricity at its home office in Brackenfell, Cape Town, marking its third site to implement this energy solution.
The retailer becomes one of the first businesses to wheel renewable electricity through the city’s energy grid, it highlights in a statement.
Wheeling involves the buying and selling of electricity between private parties, using an existing grid to transport power from where it is generated to the end-user.
Excess electricity generated by Checkers Hyper Brackenfell at Fairbridge Mall, is bought by Enpower Trading, a National Energy Regulator of South Africa-licensed electricity trader, which then facilitates the sale of this electricity back to the Shoprite Group for use at the retailer’s adjacent home office campus.
“In 2023, our consumption of renewable energy nearly doubled to 103 234 MWh from 54 138 MWh in the previous year. With renewable electrons now flowing through Cape Town’s energy grid, we are another step closer to our climate goals of being carbon neutral by 2050,” says Shoprite Group chief sustainability officer Sanjeev Raghubir.
“In the coming years, our reliance on the national grid will be significantly reduced as the energy market steadily grows with the emergence of utility-scale independent power producers and small-scale power generators selling their excess power to the city and other customers through embedded generation and wheeling,” says the City’s Energy MMC Beverley van Reenen.
The Shoprite Group’s electricity wheeling efforts build on prior initiatives from 2016, when it began wheeling electricity at Checkers Newton Park in Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape.
In 2022, Checkers Sitari and Sitari Village Mall near Somerset West became the first premium supermarket and shopping centre in South Africa to operate entirely on renewable energy from wind and solar sources.
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