Oct 19 2010
Fluor Corporation, a composite power production facilities building and operating company declared that it was chosen by South Africa’s Department of Energy to undertake a field study in the Northern Cape for the possible development of a solar park. Earlier, William J. Clinton Foundation under its Clinton Climate Initiative undertook and completed a pre-feasibility study in the same place.
Fluor is entrusted to make a further deep study and prepare a comprehensive abstract master plan for the sake of presenting it in the forthcoming South African Solar Park Investors Conference to be held at Upington, Northern Cape Province of South Africa on 28th and 29th October.
The proposed 5 GW solar park will be one among the bigger solar parks all over the globe. On completion of the abstract study and its presentation a further elaborate design plan will be formulated. The proposed solar park will have a number of upcoming and established technologies which includes solar applications such as photovoltaic (PV), concentrated solar power (CSP) and concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) and other related machineries such as parabolic trough alternatives and power tower.
According to the sources from the Department of Energy the 5 GW solar park is to come up with an investment of around US$20 billion. The South African Department of Energy has plans to set up a separate Solar Park Authority as an individual unit in the state-owned Central Energy Fund to assist the progress of the project.