Country South Africa Status Operational Type CSP Address Bokpoort, South Africa Construction began September 2013 | Location Groblershoop Commission date December 2015 CSP technology Parabolic Reflectors Site area 3 km² | |
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Bokpoort csp plant near groblershoop in the northern cape
Bokpoort CSP is a concentrated solar power (CSP) solar thermal power plant, located near Groblershoop in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It has a capacity of 50.0 megawatts (MW). It covers an area of less than 300 hectares (741 acres).
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The Bokpoort Plant has a full-load molten salt storage capacity of 1‚300MWh equivalent to around 9.3 hours. The plant was completed in December 2015, after a construction period of 30 months.
The consortium led by ACWA Power International (Saudi Arabia) describes this system as the largest thermal storage system ever built for a CSP plant of its size and capacity. The South African solar power plant has set a new African record (25 March 2016) for the continuous, round the clock supply of renewable electricity for 161 hours.