De Aar

electricity utility

renewable energy project funding and support

Hydrogen fuel infrastructure

Solar cells created using a thin-film technology that employs inexpensive materials such as zinc and iron instead of costly materials like iridium. IBM's process demonstrated conversion efficiency of 9.6% in 2010.

South Africa's largest thin-film solar energy project designed to generate electrical power for Eskom. The facility will use over 200,000 thin-film photovoltaic modules to produce 150,000 megawatt-hours of energy annually.

Second-generation solar cells made of thin layers of glass, metal, or plastic. These modules are typically less expensive than conventional crystalline silicon solar cells and are being deployed in the Solar Capital De Aar 3 project.