The All-Woman Solar Panel Plant Breaking Barriers in Cape Town

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Growing up on the Cape Flats as the eldest of five siblings, three of which were boys, Rene Salmon never saw a difference between her and her brothers. Being the eldest, her father always showed her how to do something first. In turn, she says, she’d have to show her siblings. 

“I played car games and built tree houses with my brothers even though there were no trees in Mitchells Plain,” says Salmon. “What they could do, I could do.”

Today, Salmon is a plant manager at a solar panel plant in Ndabeni, Cape Town, where she trains other women in solar panel assembly and shows them that if she can use a soldering iron, so can they.

A first-of-its-kind, all-woman solar panel plant

Ener-G-Africa’s (EGA) solar panel manufacturing facility is a first-of-its-kind, as it’s the only small solar panel plant in the world certified by TUV Rheinland, a German-accredited inspection authority. The 800m² plant manufactures 20 W panels that sell for around R300 each in South Africa, Malawi, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and several other African countries. The plant is also all-woman led and staffed. 

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