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GCO mine off-grid hybrid project, Senegal
21st February 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

JUWI Renewable Energies South Africa and Eramet Grande Côte plan to build one of the largest off-grid hybrid installations in Senegal. 


OFF-GRID
JUWI Renewable Energies has reached financial close on a €30-million off-grid solar PV and battery storage solution for Eramet Grande Côte’s mine
Hybrid energy solution helps mine meet sustainability goals
31st January 2025

In a significant step towards sustainable mining in Africa, French multinational mining and metals company Eramet subsidiary Eramet Grande Côte, and South African renewable-energy company JUWI... 


JUWI to build R6 billion (USD 320M) in solar projects for mining, energy, and data centre leaders in 2025
JUWI to build R6 billion (USD 320M) in solar projects for mining, energy, and data centre leaders in 2025
28th January 2025

JUWI Renewable Energies (www.juwi.co.za), a global renewable energy leader, today announced plans to begin construction on three major private solar projects in 2025. Representing investments of... 


JUWI Renewable Energies MD Richard Doyle
JUWI building 340 MW of solar PV to supply South African corporates
28th January 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Leading global builder and operator of renewable-energy projects JUWI Renewable Energies has announced that it is building three utility scale solar PV projects in South Africa with a combined... 


Eramet's mineral sands mine in Senegal
JUWI South Africa takes the lead on Senegal’s newest mine-site hybrid solar plant
22nd November 2024 By: Marleny Arnoldi

French multinational miner Eramet’s subsidiary Eramet Grande Côte and renewable energy company JUWI Renewable Energies South Africa have closed a €30-million, or R600-million, deal to build a solar... 


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Teraco solar photovoltaic plant, South Africa – update
22nd November 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

Construction has started. 


Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo
Teraco starts building 120 MW solar power plant to wheel power to its data centres
12th November 2024 By: Schalk Burger

Information and communications technology infrastructure company Teraco has started construction of its 120 MW utility-scale solar PV power plant in the Free State, which is expected to come online... 


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Pilanesberg Platinum Mines renewable-energy project, South Africa – update
14th June 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

Sedibelo Resources has entered into discussions with African Clean Energy Solutions for the construction of a solar farm. 


SA's Data Hub Future: Clean Energy is Non-Negotiable
24th May 2024

By Richard Doyle, MD, JUWI Renewable Energies Data centres are quickly becoming pivotal to South Africa's economic growth, supporting a digital transformation that is sweeping across Africa. As... 


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Energy grid impedes excess power transmission
19th April 2024 By: Lynne Davies

South Africa’s current electricity transmission grid is generally constrained in the Cape provinces and unable to facilitate the connection of new utility-scale generation including that from solar... 


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Teraco solar photovoltaic plant, South Africa
5th April 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

Teraco secured its first grid capacity allocation from State-owned power utility Eskom in February 2024. 


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Teraco to build 120 MW solar plant after securing grid capacity allocation
21st February 2024 By: Schalk Burger

Data centre infrastructure and services company Teraco will start construction of a 120 MW utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) facility in the Free State after securing its first grid capacity... 


Renewables and Mining: An emerging relationship
15th September 2023

In anticipation of the African Renewable Investment Summit, Gilles Durmont, Head of Business Development at JUWI South Africa, sheds light on the intertwined nature of renewable energy and mining.... 


JUWI Renewables South Africa MD Richard Doyle
Opinion: Embracing renewable energy – a catalyst for sustainable mining
6th July 2023

In this article, JUWI Renewables South Africa MD Richard Doyle shares insights from a recent Africa Energy Forum panel discussion during which experts from the renewable energy and mining sectors... 


German coal miners under fire for unfair edge in renewables push
German coal miners under fire for unfair edge in renewables push
30th June 2023 By: Bloomberg

Less than a year after German coal giant LEAG unveiled plans to transform its opencast mines into wind and solar farms, concerns are mounting that it and other lignite miners are exploiting an... 


JUWI South Africa MD Richard Doyle
JUWI South Africa now has 400 MW of EPC projects under way in the mining sector
27th June 2023 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Solar, wind and hybrid project developer, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and operations and maintenance company JUWI South Africa now has 400 MW of EPC projects in advanced stages... 


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New mining vision, platinum deficit, renewables make headlines
19th May 2023

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses calls for a new mining vision amid release of exploration funds; Platinum’s deficit prediction is up 77% this year, close to a million ounces; and Pan... 


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Pan African advances renewables procurement plans
15th May 2023 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Midtier Africa-focused gold producer Pan African Resources has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement with renewable energy company Juwi Renewable Energies for an 8.75... 


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Pilanesberg Platinum Mines energy project, South Africa – update
7th April 2023 By: Sheila Barradas

Sedibelo is negotiating a power purchase agreement with successful bidding consortium Sturdee Energy. 


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Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme – Bid Window 5, South Africa – update
7th April 2023 By: Sheila Barradas

Renewable-energy developer juwi South Africa has reached financial close on and started building the Wolf Wind Farm. 


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Juwi, Red Rocket reach financial close on 84 MW Eastern Cape wind project
29th March 2023 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Renewable energy developer Juwi South Africa has reached financial close on and started building an 84 MW wind project in the Eastern Cape. The Wolf Wind project was successfully bid by Red... 


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Sukari solar plant, Egypt – update
27th January 2023 By: Sheila Barradas

Centamin commissioned its Sukari solar photovoltaic plant during the fourth quarter of 2022. 


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Elikhulu solar photovoltaic power project, South Africa – update
13th January 2023 By: Sheila Barradas

The Elikhulu solar plant became the first embedded project over 1 MW to receive full grid code compliance from Eskom is December 2022. 


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‘Largest’ solar hybrid project commissioned at mine
16th December 2022

During the international community‘s search for solutions to the climate crisis at the COP27 conference in Egypt in November, international project developer JUWI published a release noting that it... 


Renewables fuel journey to sustainable mining
16th December 2022

Among South Africa’s many natural endowments, it is blessed with abundant solar energy, a free and inexhaustible resource that can provide renewable energy in mining, states gold producer Pan... 


Pan African's Elikhulu plant.
Pan African gold operation receives Eskom approval to connect to grid
15th December 2022 By: Martin Creamer

The 10 MW Elikhulu solar renewable energy plant developed at Evander gold operations has become the first embedded project over 1 MW to receive full grid code compliance from Eskom.  This was... 


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Sukari solar plant, Egypt – update
25th November 2022 By: Sheila Barradas

Renewable-energy company juwi is in the final stages of commissioning the plant. 


Juwi commissions solar hybrid project at Sukari gold mine
18th November 2022 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Renewable energy company Juwi is in the final stages of commissioning a large solar hybrid project, in Egypt, comprising a 36 MW solar farm and 7.5 MW battery storage system. The solar farm and... 


JUWI to operate 85 MW solar park in South Africa
7th September 2022 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Renewable energy group JUWI Renewable Energies has taken over the operations and maintenance (O&M) of the 85 MW De Aar 1 solar farm, which is located 500 km north of the coastal city of Port... 


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Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme – fourth window, South Africa – update
8th July 2022 By: Sheila Barradas

An update on the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme – fourth window project. 


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Elikhulu solar photovoltaic power project, South Africa – update
3rd June 2022 By: Sheila Barradas

Pan African Resources has reported that the solar plant has started supplying electricity to the group’s Elikhulu surface retreatment operations. 


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Sedibelo Platinum to play important part in South Africa’s green hydrogen effort – Frandsen
31st May 2022 By: Martin Creamer

Sedibelo Platinum Mines, in South Africa’s North West province, will be playing a very important part in South Africa's green hydrogen effort to ensure that it contributes to a greener South... 


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Elikhulu solar photovoltaic power project, South Africa – update
13th May 2022 By: Sheila Barradas

The solar plants started supplying electricity to the Elikhulu surface retreatment operations on May 6. 


Pan African successfully commissions 10 MW solar PV plant at Evander
10th May 2022 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Gold miner Pan African Resources says the 10 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant at its Evander gold miner started supplying electricity to the group’s Elikhulu surface retreatment operations, as part... 


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Pilanesberg Platinum Mines energy project, South Africa
18th March 2022 By: Sheila Barradas

Sedibelo Platinum Mines expects its proposed renewable-energy projects to reduce the Pilanesberg Platinum Mines carbon emissions by about 45%, resulting in significant cost savings. 


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75 MW renewable energy project for Sedibelo Platinum
11th March 2022 By: Martin Creamer

Pilanesberg Platinum Mines, a subsidiary of Sedibelo Platinum, has appointed the juwi/Sturdee Energy consortium as preferred bidder to supply renewable energy to the mining operation. The parties... 


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Elikhulu solar photovoltaic power project, South Africa – update
11th March 2022 By: Sheila Barradas

The first photovoltaic solar plant to be completed and commissioned by a mining company in South Africa is on track to produce 100% steady-state power generation by May. 


A large solar plant at the Evander mine, which should be extended even further, subject to regulatory approval
Solar plant to be commissioned by May
4th March 2022 By: Halima Frost

The first photovoltaic (PV) solar plant to be completed and commissioned by a mining company in South Africa is on track to produce 100% steady-state power generation by May, says midtier gold... 


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Elikhulu solar photovoltaic power project, South Africa – update
25th February 2022 By: Sheila Barradas

The project is on track for completion in March 2022 and is expected to be delivered on budget. 


The solar and heavy fuel oil hybrid energy plant at B2Gold's Fekola mine
African miners aggressively pursuing decarbonisation
22nd February 2022 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Mining companies are aggressively pursuing decarbonisation at their operations, with a myriad of different strategies, and varying timelines across the spectrum of miners, but with the same... 


South Africa’s solar PV value chain must develop quality culture – juwi
21st January 2022 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

By 2030, total installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity in South Africa is expected to reach 8 400 MW; however, to ensure sustainable growth, the country has to develop and implement quality... 


Orion hoping for a green energy solution at Prieska
18th November 2021 By: Esmarie Iannucci

Copper developer Orion Minerals is targeting net zero carbon emissions from its Prieska mine, in South Africa, hoping to collaborate on a new mega-scale renewable energy hub. The ASX and... 


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Local world-record rower joins Solar Capital as South Africa country manager
6th September 2021 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Renewable energy company Solar Capital has appointed the Row2Rio ocean rower Zirk Botha country manager of its South African operations. Solar Capital is a subsidiary of the Phelan Energy Group.  


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