Project Quick Facts
(MW)
100 MEGAWATTS (MW)
Developed in response to the South Africa Department of Energy’s Round 3 call for CSP projects for the REIPPPP - with the lowest delivered electricity price of any CSP project in the country to date.
0 EMISSIONS
Storage enables the plant to operate just like a conventional fossil fuel or nuclear power plant, reliably generating electricity day and night – except without any emissions or hazardous waste
PER YEAR
480K MILLION KILOWATT HOURS PER YEAR
Storage allows the facility to produce more than twice as much net annual output (kilowatt hours) than an equivalent sized photovoltaic (PV) solar project
STORAGE
12HR FULL LOAD STORAGE
SolarReserve’s US-developed patented solar thermal energy storage technology enables reliable, on-demand, energy production – even after dark
AND INDUCED JOBS
4,000 DIRECT, INDIRECT AND INDUCED JOBS
4,000 jobs will be created during the construction phase, including craft workers on site as well as jobs related to equipment supply, manufacturing, engineering, transportation and other services; during operations there will be 60-70 full-time, permanent jobs