Sun City is going to great heights in its bid to one day take the resort completely off the grid.
With all available space on the roof of Sun Central now covered by solar panels, the resort lifted its sights to the roof at The Palace, and the Sun City hotel.
Brett Hoppé, General Manager of Sun City said: “Conventional installation methods such as cranes would have inconvenienced our guests so, given the scale of the project, we decided that airlifting the equipment was the best and quickest solution. At its highest point The Palace is 70m high, so lifting 1 193 solar panels and the supporting steel structures on to the roof is no mean feat. The hefty panels were packed into crates, with each one weighing just under a ton.”
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