Environment

Solar power is a clean, renewable energy source. There are many environmental benefits of solar energy, including:

  • Solar energy does not emit CO2 and other damaging gases into the environment.
  • Solar energy does not consume water during the generation process.
  • Sunshine is plentiful and renewable (will not deplete resources or damage the environment).
  • The project conducted a comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment, which included public consultation and has received full Environmental Authorisation from the Department of Environmental Affairs.
  • Solar generation provides a clean and alternate source of electricity.

Droogfontein Solar Power environmental impact

In 2011, the International Energy Agency said that “the development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy technologies will have huge longer-term benefits. It will increase countries’ energy security through reliance on an indigenous, inexhaustible and mostly import-independent resource, enhance sustainability, reduce pollution, lower the costs of mitigating climate change, and keep fossil fuel prices lower than otherwise”.

 

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