The Spanish company Iberdrola Ingeniería has landed a $150 million contract for a 96MW PV plant near the city of Postmasburg, South Africa to be developed in consortium with South African company Group Five. The contract was was awarded by the Jasper Power Company within a project led by the American company Solar Reserve. Consequently the plant will be named the Jasper PV plant upon completion.
The agreement, signed in Johannesburg, includes the development of the plant, the transformer substation and the feeder lines in addition to operation and maintenance over the next 15 years. The consortium will also develop a 132KV overhead power line that will connect the plant to the national grid.
The plant itself will have over 325,000 polycrystalline PV modules deployed across 180 hectares of land. The scheme is part of Round 2 of the Renewable IPP Programme of South Africa's Energy Department which has also allocated the construction of seven other PV plants and seven wind farms. A further renewable energy programme will be launched once the current one has been completed in order to develop a total capacity of 3,200MW of clean generation to the grid before 2020.
Picture: Iberdrola's Copper Crossing PV power station in the US
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