Biggest solar power plants in South Africa

[Jan]

South Africa's biggest solar power plants

Solar Capital's De Aar compound remains the biggest solar power plant in South Africa, with a total capacity of 175.26MW split across two sites.

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy's IPP Projects database lists all the country's operational and forthcoming renewable power plants, including each plant's contracted capacity.

 

[Johand]

Is the Kenhardt plant disqualified for some reason? It is a very impressive facility with a ridiculously large battery :

Scatec press release

 

[G.A.S]

As mentioned previously, I'd love to see an article showcasing some of the larger private solar setups for e.g. malls and industry. (Some of the ones I found are in the thread linked above).

Edit: impressive installations listed here: https://solagroup.co.za/commercial-and-industrial-solar-projects/ , and this is but 1 installer/group.

 

[G.A.S]

Is the Kenhardt plant disqualified for some reason? It is a very impressive facility with a ridiculously large battery :

Scatec press release

Presumably the IPP database was inaccessible or out of date when the article was added?

 

[Johand]

Presumably the IPP database was inaccessible or out of date when the article loaded?

Gwede was on holiday

 

[RaptorSA]

"It took 28 months to construct the entire facility, and construction cost R4.8 billion."

To put into perspective how cheap this actually is compared to the mafia strategy we're currently on, if you ran all 20 of the open cycle gas turbines we have for less than 20 days you could build another one of these for the cost of diesel alone.

That's another 20 years of additional corruption-free energy. Well, until they start taxing/stealing the sun or holding up solar importers with pangas at the harbours of course.

 

[Johand]

"It took 28 months to construct the entire facility, and construction cost R4.8 billion."

To put into perspective how cheap this actually is compared to the mafia strategy we're currently on, if you ran all 20 of the open cycle gas turbines we have for less than 20 days you could build another one of these for the cost of diesel alone.

That's another 20 years of additional corruption-free energy. Well, until they start taxing/stealing the sun or holding up solar importers with pangas at the harbours of course.

Cheap renewables are just your opinion man. All the data from other countries with high installation rates on cost is fabricated. Renewables are expensive. Read Gwede's paper man. /s

 

[upup]

Give the M/W status and the anc member % control.

 

[Gaz{M}]

Here's the kicker: ANC limited each project size to 75MW maximum.

Why? So more of their buddies could get deals via bribes and to protect Eskom.