Listed food manufacturing company, RFG Holdings says it is investing in renewable energy infrastructure to reduce the impact of load shedding and related water supply interruptions on certain of the group’s facilities.
The first site to move towards green energy was the juice products factory in Wellington in the Western Cape with a solar rooftop installation that generates a peak power output of 928 kilowatts. In March, the group signed a Power Purchase Agreement with an industrial scale biogas waste-to-energy company, Bio2Watt. Renewable energy will be supplied from the Cape Dairy Biogas Plant once it reaches commercial operation.
All of SAB’s Breweries in South Africa already use solar power, while the company also began testing an electric truck in 2022, which it hopes to roll out later this year.The group is working with renewable energy firm, EDF Renewables, to develop a regional renewable energy ecosystem in South Africa. The ecosystem is expected to be designed to meet Anglo American’s operational electricity requirements in South Africa through the supply of 100% renewable electricity by 2030.
The project, expected to be fully implemented by 2026, is a first step in making eight of the company’s mines carbon neutral by 2030.also began rolling out renewable energy solutions at select stores in 2016, and has a total of six solar plants generating clean electricity that is fed directly into stores. This will allow these stores to reduce their total monthly electricity bills, and alleviate pressure on the national grid.