Serco rolls out solar at Gauteng facility, Cape Town to follow at year-end

Truck and trailer body-building company Serco is now fully powered by solar energy at its Boksburg facility in Gauteng. The installation consists of a 150 kW hybrid solar system with 370 x 405 W panels, plus high-voltage inverters coupled with 320 kW of batteries.
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EU must step up action in clean tech race, say industry groups

Europe’s green technology industries and materials suppliers urged European Union leaders meeting for a summit on Thursday to do more to prevent the bloc dropping out of the global clean tech race against competitors China and the US. The European Union is expected to pass legislation setting targets for EU-based companies to make at least 40% of the EU’s annual deployment needs of solar, wind and other net-zero technologies by 2030.
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