Upington Solar Thermal Plant Phase 3

Construction of two commercial solar thermal electricity generating facilities on a site which lies 20km west of Upington in the Northern Cape. The proposed Upington Thermal Plant Three will utilise parabolic trough technology with a generation capacity of 100MW. Each facility would include the following infrastructure: access roads, power island, substation, power line, water abstraction point and supply pipe line, water storage tanks, packaged water treatment plant, lined evaporation ponds, salt storage tanks, auxiliary fossil fuel boilers and workshop and office buildings. Each project will be located on different areas on portion 3 of the Farm McTaggarts Camp 453, which falls within the Kai! Garib Local Municipality. The exact co-ordinates are currently not available however the marker has been placed on farm Farm McTaggarts Camp 453 -28.521424, 21.059913