Mainstream Renewable Power and Partners Awarded 1.27 GW of New Wind and Solar Projects in South Africa

摘要

Mainstream Renewable Power("Mainstream"), the global wind and solar company majority-owned by Aker Horizons, announces that twelve of its projects have won preferred bidder status in Round 5 of South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP). The wind and solar projects have a total capacity of 1.27 GW and represent half of the total allocation in the Round. Once fully operational, the projects will produce approximately 4,500 Gigawatt hours(GWh) of green electricity annually, the equivalent of displacing nearly 5 million tons of CO_2 each year.