Project overview
About this development
Construction of the Bokpoort Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant located in Groblershoop, 120 km south east of Upington, in the Northern Cape. The Bokpoort CSP Project will be owned by ACWA Power Solafrica Bokpoort CSP Power Plant (Pty) Ltd, a limited liability company established under South African Law with the majority shareholder being ACWA Power. It is a greenfield project being developed on a BOO (build, own and operate) basis located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa with a net generation capacity of 50 MW with 9 hours of thermal energy storage. Once completed it will be a CSP power plant with the longest amount of thermal storage in the world. Project Cost: USD 565 million. GPS coordinates: 28°43’26.96”S, 21°59’34.88”E.
Project at a glance
Bokpoort CSP Project is located in Northern Cape (054). The project is classified in the Public Private Partnership sector. Its current recorded stage is Complete. The recorded project value is R 200 Million+.