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South Africa: Energypro allocates 7.57 GWh of solar electricity among three industrial customers

LE BRIEF • 2026-10-27

Open Access Energy’s platform has allocated and settled SunCentral 1’s September production across multiple customers. The wheeling arrangement opens new commercial possibilities for independent producers and businesses.

LE BRIEF — Tuesday, 27 October 2026 edition By the LE BRIEF newsroom Country : South Africa Source publication : 26 October 2026 Event : Confirmation on 26 October 2026 of settlement for electricity produced in September. Ceremony at a SolarAfrica installation: photograph supplied for the SunCentral 1 report. South Africa is continuing to develop new ways of marketing renewable electricity. According to information published on 26 October 2026, Energypro, the platform developed by Open Access Energy, has allocated and settled 7.57 GWh of solar electricity among three commercial and industrial customers. The volumes come from September production at SunCentral 1, a 114 MW photovoltaic plant operated by SolarAfrica in the Northern Cape. Each customer has a separate power purchase agreement. One plant, multiple buyers The arrangement manages several contractual relationships from a single installation. Electricity is allocated according to customers’ consumption and contractual commitments, rather than assigning all output to one consumer. It relies on wheeling: using the electricity network to deliver, commercially and contractually, a producer’s energy to consumers located elsewhere. Allocation and settlement are therefore essential to implementing the contracts. Greater flexibility for the renewable market Allocating production among several buyers could facilitate the market...