Business Day interviewed Energy Partners’ CEO, Manie de Waal, about the groundbreaking Metalbox installation – South Africa’s first solar facade skyscraper.
Manie shared behind-the-scenes insights into how Energy Partners transformed the iconic Metalbox building with cutting-edge BIPV technology, integrating solar panels into the building’s façade to generate up to 300 MWh annually.
Check out the full interview to see how Energy Partners successfully and safely completed a project that de Waal says, “would have been impossible three years ago”: https://issuu.com/sundaytimesza/docs/energy_sep2024

R600m recovered, and counting: the hidden cost of SA’s energy complexity, and the system built to solve it
South African organisations have recovered over R600 million in unverified energy charges using Syntiro™, Energy Partners’ financial control system for energy, now named Innovative Energy Project of the Year at the 2026 AEE Sub-Saharan Africa Energy Awards. Here’s what it means as SAWEM approaches in 2028.



