Ajoint venture of Spain's Grupo Clavijo and Germany's Schletter GmbH has won a contract to install photovoltaic racks for South Africa's 96-MW Jasper Solar Energy Project, which counts Google as one of its investors.
It is Google's first renewable-energy play on the continent, where PV energy projects are emerging fast. A consortium, led by California-based SolarReserve, is developing the site at which Yingli solar panels are to be installed under an engineering, procurement and con-struction contract, led by Spain-based Iberdrola Engineering and South Africa's Group Five. The $260-million project in Northern Cape is expected to be the largest solar installation to date in Africa.