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Kenhardt Solar Power Complex Station

South Africa

The Kenhardt Solar Power Complex Station is a 540 MW (720, 000 hp) solar power plant complex in South Africa. The complex comprises three power stations each with generation capacity of 180 megawatts. The three power plants feed their output into a battery energy storage system (BESS) with capacity of 225MW/1,140MWh, which modulates the power output to discharge a consistent 150 MW for 16.5 hours daily between the hours of 5am and 9.30pm.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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