Data center company Teraco started building 120 MW solar plant in South Africa
Data center company Teraco has started building a 120 MW utility-scale solar plant in Free State province, South Africa.
The project will power Teraco’s data centers. Once operational, it is expected to generate more than 354,000 MWh per year. Teraco partnered with Juwi and Subsolar to develop the plant, with Juwi appointed to design and manage the procurement, construction, and commissioning. The project, which secured grid capacity in February 2024, is expected to go online in late 2026.
Teraco successfully secured grid capacity allocation from Eskom for the solar plant and has spent the last eight months finalizing plant design and the wheeling arrangements between Eskom and the municipalities of Ekurhuleni and Cape Town, within which several of Teraco’s data centers are located.
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