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Heineken’s Sedibeng solar plant boasts 14 000 panels with an energy capacity of over 6.5MW providing 30 per cent of the brewery’s electricity demand. www.theexchange.africa

Heineken South Africa launches solar plant to reduce its carbon footprint

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Heineken notes that this embedded grid-connected solar project incorporates single axis tracking technology that enables the panels to move with the rise and setting of the sun.

Single-axis tracking systems tilt on one axis, tracking the sun as it moves from east to west during the day.

A solar tracking system adjusts the position of a solar panel along an axis. This is done to ensure a small angle of incidence or the angle that sunlight hits a solar panel.…