ACWA Power recently held a ground breaking ceremony to commence construction of the Bokpoort concentrated solar power (CSP) independent power producer (IPP) project located in Groblershoop, Northern Cape. This is the first energy project in South Africa for ACWA Power, a Saudi-based operator of power and desalinated water plants, and is set to add 50 MWe of clean energy to the national grid.
Forming part of South Africa’s Renewable Energy IPP procurement programme (REIPP), the Bokpoort CSP project is being equipped with the largest thermal storage ever adopted for a solar power plant of this class and capacity in the world. The plant thermal storage capacity will be 9.3 hours enabling it to yield a record-high generation in excess of 200 GWh/year well into the night every day throughout the year. This makes CSP the only renewable technology at commercial scale to cover the country's daily peak demand from 5:00 to 9:00 PM thereby helping to prevent power blackouts.
Read more at source......
Forming part of South Africa’s Renewable Energy IPP procurement programme (REIPP), the Bokpoort CSP project is being equipped with the largest thermal storage ever adopted for a solar power plant of this class and capacity in the world. The plant thermal storage capacity will be 9.3 hours enabling it to yield a record-high generation in excess of 200 GWh/year well into the night every day throughout the year. This makes CSP the only renewable technology at commercial scale to cover the country's daily peak demand from 5:00 to 9:00 PM thereby helping to prevent power blackouts.
Read more at source......
RSS Feed
