A Limpopo solar farm is now powering a smelter in Richards Bay
The Voltalia facility near Tzaneen Voltalia did not build a single kilometre of transmission line to get its electricity from Limpopo to Richards Bay. Instead, it uses Eskom’s. Voltalia’s 148MW plant injects electricity into Eskom’s grid in Limpopo. Eskom meters what goes in and what RBM draws out at the other end, and reconciles the…