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Post date: Dec 1, 2011 4:58:32 PM
Upington solar park along Orange river northern cape province
Solar 90% PV - 10% CSP
90 % of the planned solar capacity will be PV photovoltaic.
Use of CSP technology is relatively newwith 10% and hardly
competititve with falling PV prices
The heat is on: Proposed solar power site could be the biggest in the world
Eskom will need some sort of Smart grid
It will be difficult for Eskom to integrate all this, because it has
been used to supplying baseload energy, and not used to having
to plan with external energy producers.
World Bank Cleantech fund Loan
Upington Solar Park (north) and Sere wind Farm (west) Cape province
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa signed a $250-million (183-million-euro) loan
deal with the World Bank on Monday aimed at adding 200 Megawatts of solar
and wind power to the coal-dependent country's grid. The loan will help fund
what the World Bank described as two of the largest renewable energy projects
in Africa -- the massive Upington solar park in arid Northern Cape province and
the Sere wind farm in Western Cape province,
300 kilometres (185 miles) north of Cape Town.
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