Précis:South Africa’s government may hold back on further CSP allocations until the technology’s performance is proven on South African turf. Tom Nevin in Johannesburg reports.The inclusion of 200MW of concentrated solar power in the first round of the South African energy department’s 2010 Integrated Resources Plan could be intepreted as both good news and bad for the concentrated solar power community.
The 20-year plan was designed to achieve the optimal mix of supply-side resources and demand-side management to meet electricity distribution needs. When it was first drafted concentrated solar power (CSP) technology was the ‘in-flavour’ and seemed destined for favourable treatement in the final report.
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