Agriculture & rural solar energy solutions Archives

650 Solar Home Systems installed at Collins Chabane Local Municipality

Collins Chabane Local Municipality 650 DC Solar Home Systems Project at the Collins Chabane Local Municipality -23.0055,30.6870 Following the success of 2000 Solar Home Systems produced and installed for the DOE by Specialized Solar Systems,...

Understanding the Redflow battery

Flow batteries are a well understood class of energy storage technology. To date, production flow batteries have been relatively large in terms of both physical size and storage capacity. Redflow has successfully designed and commercialised a small,...

Redflow supplies batteries for South African mobile phone towers

Redflow Limited has received an order to supply five zinc-bromine flow batteries for a pilot project to provide standby energy storage for mobile phone towers in South Africa.

7.5 kW VSD system powering a 5.5kW 380V AC water pump installation in Jeffreys Bay

Specialized Solar Systems’ Solar Agricultural installation team completed a 7.5 kW VSD system, used to power a 5.5kW 380V- AC water pump with 10.50 kWP solar array in Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape South Africa.

80 x Solar powered street lights installation at the Steelpoort Bauba mining community

80 x Solar-powered street lights installation at the Steelpoort Bauba mining community. The Bauba mining community’s solar-powered street lights are being used for much-needed night lighting, added security and to light up the local school. The...

The mobile Solar Sentry Trailer helps power the Greenpop Eden Festival of Action this year

Specialized Solar Systems is sponsoring a Solar Sentry Trailer to help power the Greenpop Eden Festival of Action 2018 with renewable solar energy. Keeping to the green theme, Specialized Solar Systems is very pleased to sponsor one of our rugged...

Shining lights…

An editorial around Specialized Solar Systems mission of becoming a Solar Electricity utility provider for disconnected rural communities all over South Africa using Smart grid technology that was recently published on the Victron Energy blog site

Interview with Specialized Solar Systems, Business Member of Sun-Connect News Company Database

Please have a look at this interesting and detailed article from an interview with our managing director, Peter Bergs, that was published on the Sun Connect website last week

Hoogekraal Off-grid Solar System Installation

Off-grid solar system installation completed this week for a customer at Hoogekraal close to Sedgefield in the Garden Route South Africa.

3kW Solar Water Pump System Installation

A 3kW AC solar water pump system was recently installed in Prince Albert. The 3kW borehole (submersible) solar water pump is powered by a 4kW VSD (variable speed drive) system delivering variable AC power from 5 565 Watts array of PV solar modules.