According to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s IPP website, operational solar plants can provide over 2,700MW of clean electricity to South Africa’s grid. Here is the full list of plants currently contributing to Eskom’s grid, how much power they generate, and where they are located.
There are 51 solar power stations that are feeding clean energy into South Africa’s grid, as of October 2023.
The vast majority of solar farms in South Africa use photovoltaic panels, which have cells that can absorb sunlight and create electrical charges due to an internal electrical field, resulting in the flow of electricity. Instead of putting the panels on a roof, large-scale PV solar farms have their panels mounted in the ground.
Four of these have a capacity of 100MW — making them the largest single solar farms in the country — while two more boast 50MW capacities.The most prevalent type used in South Africa — the linear concentrator system — uses U-shaped mirrors that focus the heat on temperature fluid-filled tubes that run across the length of the mirrors.
The contribution of CSPs during the worst levels of load-shedding — typically during the evening peaks — can often be seen in Eskom’s daily peak demand statistics, while PV provides no megawatts during this period.
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