Local Is Lekker With Kayema Energy And Ikhwezi Solar

A new service agreement between Kayema and East-London based manufacturer Ikhwezi Solar (Pty) Ltd starting November is great news for consumers. Kayema now offers a 100% locally manufactured high quality solar water heating system to the South African market using Ikhwezi’s panels, the first next-generation collector to be manufactured locally, making solar energy even more affordable for South African households and large-scale commercial applications. Ikhwezi plans to contribute 66000 panels a year to Government’s goal of 1 million systems by 2014. The Ikhwezi/Kayema partnership is also good news for the country, with the creation of hundreds of new jobs on the horizon. Ikhwezi Solar is owned by the Ikhwezi Investment Group, which has a 63% black shareholding. Kayema has installed domestic systems under group schemes for the staff of many of SA’s large corporations, has designed and implemented some of SA’s largest commercial solar water heating systems and was awarded the SAEE 2010 ‘Energy Company of the Year’.

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