mix is diversifying, with renewables now making up 25% of the country’s total installed generation capacity. The north-western region of the country is endowed with vast tracks of land where sunshine is abundant and intense, particularly in the Northern Cape. This has attracted several independent power producers into the region.
TechCentral conducted desktop research into the largest, utility-scale solar power projects that feed energy into South Africa’s grid as part of government’s renewable IPP programme.
Karoshoek went live in November 2018 and is expected to feed the national grid for the next 20 years or more.is named after the Khatu region of the Northern Cape in which the 100MW CSP plant is situated. Operations on this site commenced in January 2019 using parabolic trough technology and a molten storage system that can produce electricity for 4.5 hours after the sun has set.