Tanganda completes 1.8MW solar plant, two more by December
The 1.8MW solar plant at Meikles' Ratelshoek estate (Newzwire) Tanganda has installed a 1.8MW solar plant at one of its tea estates and plans to complete two more solar farms at two other estates by year end, as part of the Meikles group’s plan to expand its agriculture exports. Construction of the plant at Ratelshoek, Chipinge, was completed in September. The plant, built by DPA, is now supplying power for irrigation and acting as a standby source of power for the factory supported by diesel generators when power supply from the national grid is interrupted, Meikles says in its half-year f...