first maxx-solar academy energy day in iThemba Labantu

It’s Tuesday January 21st and in the township of Phillipi the nursery kids of the community centre iThemba Labantu are coming back from school. Their after-school teacher promised a surprise for this afternoon. Antje Klauß-Vorreiter and Manja Schubert of the ‘maxx-solar academy show them with solar power experiment tool kids how the sun produces electricity.  They are even given the opportunity to  conduct their own experiments,  powering a horn as well as a motor using small solar cells. What the kids liked best was to let various coloured disks rotate using the solar motor.

The maxx-academy team explained that those small cells power their motor in the same way as the large modules on the roof of the community hospital, converting the light of the sun into power. The 5,32kWp solar power plant of the community hall has been working since 30 March of 2011. Due to the initiative and the support of maxx-solar and energy and to the module donation of Bosch Solar Energy AG, about 6.575kWh have been produced in the last ten months. In order not to let this be a unique example maxx-solar & energy supports the DGS Solarschool Thuringia by the foundation of the ‘maxx-solar-academy’ in South Africa.

Already in April 2012 the ‘maxx-solar academy’ will offer information events in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The academy  plans to start regular events in August 2012. There are going to be courses on:

  • Solar power consultancy
  • Solar power planning
  • Solar power installation

Additionally adapted trainings will be offered to pupils and teachers in the community centre of iThemba Labantu and for students of the college in Cape Town.

For more information please contact info@maxx-energy.co.za.

The ‘maxx-solar academy’ receives funding from BMZ’s developPPP.de. programme.

26.03.2012 /