UMMBILA EMOYENI RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITIES EGI, MPUMALANGA PROVINCE

Emoyeni Renewable Energy Farm (Pty) Ltd is proposing the development of renewable energy facilities, collectively known as the Ummbila Emoyeni Renewable Energy Faclility, consisting of a commercial wind farm, solar PV facility, and associated grid infrastructure, including a battery energy storage system, located approximately 6km southeast of Bethal in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa.

A preferred project focus area with an extent of 27 819ha been identified by Emoyeni Renewable Energy Farm (Pty) Ltd as a technically suitable area for the development of the Ummbilla Emoyeni Renewable Energy Farm with a contracted capacity of up to 666MW of wind energy and 150MW of solar energy. This layout, and project capacity, will reduce as the EIA and scoping process identifies environmental constraints that exclude areas for development.

The project will include associated grid infrastructure that is required to connect the Ummbila Emoyeni Renewable Energy Facility to the national grid. The grid connection solution entails establishing a 400/132 kV MTS, between Camden and SOL Substations, which will be looped in and out of the existing Camden-Sol 400 kV line1. The location of the MTS will be refined through an ongoing process of communication with Eskom Planning but will be within close proximity to the 400kV line in order to cut into this line.