South Africa: D-School Solar Energy System First of a Proposed Campus Roll-Out

Right now, it's a deep hole on a site at the corner of Woolsack Drive and Cross Campus Road on the University of Cape Town's (UCT) middle campus. But soon the four-storey Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking (d-school) will rise, and with it a new era of solar energy on campus.

Through the Office of the Vice Chancellor's Environmental Sustainability Directorate, UCT has led a detailed technical and financial feasibility study for the potential of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) installations across all campuses, said Manfred Braune, the director of environmental sustainability.

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