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I am exporing a small-medium scale industrial PV system (< 1 MWp) on available agricultural land. A 1 ha lowland area is available at Sandberg Fynbos Reserve- a 600 ha private nature reserve in Overberg, Western Cape.
The property has overhead Eskom power lines (22 kVA or 33 KVA ? and rights over the land on way-leave basis) and then the thinner 11 KVA line branches off this to the main DB at the farmhouse. The 1 ha land has a potential for up to 700 KWp solar PV on a “Agri-PV” land use model. It is envisaged that the shading from ground-mount solar PV could be used for a nursery for plant propogation (see attached pic). The Solar PV will be grid-tied with Eskom feed-in and most of the revenue of will be from electricity sales to Eskom, although Sandberg Fynbos Reserve has 6 households that can also be fed from teh sola system and direct customers.

Sandberg Fynbos Reserve entrance is on the R43, located 34°34'30.01"S, 19°41'35.65"E.
The  proposed 1 ha Agri_PV: 34°34'39.55"S, 19°41'31.12"E 

What is the opportunity and feasibility of this project? Does it depend on the local grid capacity and lines? If so, how can this be assessed?
I have emailed Eskom to try clarify the max feed in that will be considered (no reponse) and tried to gather information from Eskom web-site and SSEG legislation.
I have used tools to estimate the solar potential at this location ie 700 KWp will generate 970 035 KWh per annum
In terms of legislation,  I do see that solar <100 KVA does *not* require application to NERSA so this should be a much simpler process?
https://www.eskom.co.za/distribution/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SSEG-process-fact-sheet.final_.pdf

https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tooand 700KWp solar ls.html#PVP

https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/en/documents/publications/studies/APV-Guideline.pdf
This opportunity could be self-financed or developed by an outside business who leases land at nominal fee and provides the energy service to Sandberg residents. Any insight and oppinions will be very valuable. Thanks!

Example_groundmount AgriPV.png

Edited by proteapermaculture

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