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GHANA
Nzema Solar Power Station is a 155-megawatt (208,000
hp) solar power plant located at Aiwiaso Village, Nzema East
District, Western Region, Ghana. The power station will use a
total of 630,000 solar photovoltaic (PV) modules which, when
struck by sunlight, will generate direct current (DC) electricity.
Using inverters, the DC will be converted to alternating current
(AC), which will be fed in the national electricity grid, to
power an estimated 100,000 homes. The project will be
developed on 83 hectares (450 acres).
SOUTH AFRICA
The Kathu Solar Park is a 100-megawatt (MW)
concentrated solar park, situated in Kathu, in the Northern
Cape Province, 600km of Pretoria. It is a greenfield
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project with parabolic trough
technology and equipped with a molten salt storage system
that allows four-and-a-half hours of thermal energy storage.
Once in operation, Kathu Solar Park will have the capacity to
supply 80,000 households across South Africa and will help
reduce carbon emissions by 300,000 tonnes every year.
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