Harnessing the sun and safari experience

The renovation of the luxury Cheetah Plains Lodge in the heart of the Sabi Sands Game Reserve in the Kruger National Park provided the ideal opportunity for the owners to double down on its ambition to become fully sustainable.

In particular, the energy supply was – quite literally – a burning issue. Cheetah Plains Lodge was served by a single-phase grid supply from the national utility Eskom, which was both unreliable and insufficient to meet the demand for the facility’s systems and guests. On one occasion, drastic voltage fluctuations eventually led to a burnt-out transformer.

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