“KaXu Solar One is one of the 28 renewable energy projects announced by the South African Energy Department (DoE) in 2011.”
KaXu Solar One is a 100 MW concentrated power (CSP) solar plant built at a site near 1,100ha Pofadder in the Cape Province of South Africa. It is the first solar thermal plant in South Africa to use the parabolic trough collector technology. The solar energy project was officially inaugurated in March 2015. Clean energy is supplied to approximately 80,000 African households, while compensation equals 315,000t of CO2 emissions per year.
MMYPEM participates in the KaXu solar project, jointly owned by Abengoa Solar (51%), the State-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC, 29%), and a community trust owned by the broad base of Black Economic Empowerment BBBEE, 20%).
