Redstone solar thermal power, South Africa

South Africa: Acwa Power’s Redstone concentrated solar power plant starts up


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Issue 513 - 25 Sep 2024 - By Marc Howard , Tonderayi Mukeredzi | 1 minute read

Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power has commissioned the 100MW Redstone concentrated solar power plant in South Africa’s Northern Cape. It marks further progress for the technology, which offers both intermittent and dispatchable solar generation but is often seen as too costly to develop. The plant brings total African operational capacity to 1.7GW according to African Energy Live Data.

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