South Africa to build Concentrated Solar Power Plant ?

[goldsilverratio]

South Africa to build Concentrated Solar Power Plant ? (28 February 2022)
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The Project will generate solar power using mirrors, to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a small area known as the receiver. Electricity is then generated when the concentrated light is converted to solar thermal energy ? (28 February 2022)
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The Plant will be capable of producing approximately 480 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy annually,
with a generating capacity of 100 megawatts ?
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The Project will have 12 hours of full-load energy storage ?

This will enable the power plant to deliver electricity supply to more than 200,000 homes after sunset ?
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The Project will be constructed over a period of 31 months, achieving full commercial operation by the end of October 2023 ?
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https://businesstech.co.za/news/ene...er-plant-to-be-built-in-south-africa-by-2023/

 

[Overnight]

Anyone else see a problem with this equation?

"...will be capable of producing approximately 480 gigawatt-hours (GWh) net of renewable energy annually, with a nominal net generating capacity of approximately 100 megawatts (MW)..."

Solar. Wave of the future. That's about the least efficient method of power production ever witness by man. Fucking morons.

 

[mlawson71]

Where will it be built?

 

[goldsilverratio]

100 MW Solar Plant Update...14th March 2022
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South Africa to build 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power Plant in the Northern Cape ?
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The Northern Cape in South Africa has been identified as an area with High Solar Irradiance ?
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The Project will generate solar power using mirrors, known as heliostats,
to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a small area known as the receiver ?

Electricity is then generated when the concentrated light is converted to solar thermal energy ?
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The Project will also have 12 hours of full-load Energy Storage ?
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Energy Storage will enable the power plant to deliver electricity
to more than 200,000 homes after sunset ?
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The Project will be constructed over a period of 31 months,
achieving full commercial operation by the end of October 2023 ?
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https://businesstech.co.za/news/ene...er-plant-to-be-built-in-south-africa-by-2023/

 

[goldsilverratio]

100 MW Solar Plant Update...14th March 2022
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The construction and operation of the power plant will take place
in the Hay District, around 30 km from Postmasburg in the Northern Cape ?
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The driving distance between Cape Town, (Legislative Capital of South Africa)
and Postmasburg is about 950km ?
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[mlawson71]

So the plant is finished?

 

[goldsilverratio]

Picture of a 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power Plant with Heliostats and Receiver ?

 

[mlawson71]

That is pretty cool, I think. Is that the SA plant?

 

[virtusa]

And this is what happened: