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Bokpoort Breaks a Solar Record – CSP Operating Round the Clock 13 Days:

CSP plants like ACWA Power’s Bokpoort use a thermal power block like a coal or gas plant, but the advantage is that it uses renewable energy – sunlight as the “fuel” so it is a thermal form of solar energy that can be stored for very long periods cost-effectively in gigantic tanks of molten salt …

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ACWA Power’s Bokpoort Concentrated Solar Power plant breaks African record

ACWA Power, a leading developer, investor and operator of power generation and desalinated water plants worldwide, announced Wednesday that its South African Bokpoort CSP plant has become the first renewable facility in the continent to complete a full week of continuous round the clock operation. Bokpoort CSP set the new African continental benchmark achieving 13 …

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