Saint-Gobain has signed a renewable electricity supply agreement (Power Purchase Agreement or PPA) with CVE, an independent French renewable energy producer, to secure about 140 GWh of solar electricity in South Africa, over a 20-year period.
This PPA is expected to cover around 40 % of the electrical needs of Saint-Gobain’s 4 major industrial sites in the country, producing gypsum and mortars. The sites are located in Brakpan, Alrode and Germiston in the Gauteng region, as well as in Parrow, Western Cape. This will offset Saint-Gobain South Africa’s CO2 emissions from electricity (scope 2 emissions) by more than 6,800 tons per year.
CVE South Africa focuses on decentralized energy projects, mainly self-consumption projects for agricultural and industrial customers, geographically located in the Western Cape (Cape Town), Gauteng (Johannesburg) and industrial areas in the hinterland and on the east coast of South Africa.
