Project overview
About this development
Development of the 1GW Upington Solar Park, near Upington in the Northern Cape. The development will consist of the following infrastructure development but not limited to: Construction of the Solar Park bulk infrastructure (e.g power blocks and turbines; collector substations and interconnection substations, power lines, auxiliary fossil fuel boilers, salt or direct stream storage vessels) solar panels of different solar technologies; workshop area for maintenance and storage of equipment; building infrastructure; construction of pipelines for water supply; stormwater, drainage and sewage; telecommunications; subsoil stockpile area; topsoil stockpile area – where possible foundations need to be constructed; water treatment works, water storage and evaporation ponds; access / haul road network. It is envisaged that the proposed Solar Park will make use of different Solar Technologies such as Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) which include; Parabolic Trough (PT) and Central Receiver (CR) and Photovoltaic (PV) which include; fixed and tracking crystal line PV, fixed thin film PV and Concentrated PV (CPV) with a total generating capacity of 1GW. The proposed Solar Park development is on the remaining extent of Farm Klipkraal 451 which covers an area of approximately 5011 hectares. The GPS co-ordinates are 28°27'10.7"S 21°06'33.1"E.
Project at a glance
1GW Upington Solar Park is located in Upington. The project is classified in the Public Private Partnership sector. Its current recorded stage is L2B Shelved. The recorded project value is R 200 Million+.