Ford South Africa has earlier today announced that its project to go green at its Silverton Assembly plant by installing a large solar panel array at the facility is now complete. Ford teamed up with SolarAfrica to install the solar array and it now stands as the largest solar installation that Ford has in Africa. The solar panels installed will are able to generate 13.5 megawatt of power.
Ford and SolarAfrica have placed 30 226 solar panels, 120 inverters and eight transformers at the facility to generate clean electricity that will go back to the grid. All of that will generate 35% of the Silverton plant’s electricity requirements – which is equivalent to powering almost 224 000 light bulbs, or 12 171 average households, for an entire year.
Ford uses the Silverton Assembly plant to build the Ranger bakkie for domestic sales and exports to over 100 global markets,
According to Ford, the installation took 599 days and 35 000 man-hours to complete and supported 121 jobs amongst sub-contractors involved in the construction and installation. Approximately 59 tons of steel and 315 tons of aluminium were used for the locally manufactured solar carports.
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