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Touwsrivier CPV Solar Project

South Africa

The 3069th largest power station in the world

36 MW · Capacity

Touwsrivier CPV Solar Project is a 44 MWp (36 MWAC) concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) power station located 13 km outside the town of Touwsrivier in the Western Cape of South Africa. The installation reached full capacity in December 2014 and is the second largest operating CPV facility in the world. Electricity produced by the plant is fed into the national grid operated by Eskom under a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA).

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

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