Bokpoort CSP

Bokpoort CSP is a concentrated solar power (CSP) thermal energy power plant, located near Groblershoop in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It has a capacity of 50.0 megawatts (MW). It covers an area of less than 300ha.The Bokpoort Plant has a full-load molten salt storage capacity of 1‚300MWh(t) equivalent to around 9.3 hours. The plant synchronised for the first time on the South African Grid in November 2015, after a construction period of 29 months.The consortium led by ACWA Power International (Saudi Arabia) describes this system as the largest thermal storage system ever built for a CSP plant of its size and capacity. The South African solar power plant has set a new African record (25 March 2016) for the continuous, round the clock supply of renewable electricity for 161 hours.