The consortium formed by Iberdrola Ingeneria and the South African company Group Five has been selected by Jasper Power Company for the construction of a 96 MW PV plant in South Africa (US$150m). The PV plant, which will be named Jasper PV, is part of a project led by the American company Solar Reserve. It will be located near the city of Postmasburg, in the Northern Cape province, and will have over 325,000 polycrystalline modules spread across some 180 hectares.
This project is also part of Round 2 of the Renewable IPP Programme of South Africa's Energy Department, which has assigned the construction of 8 PV plants and 7 wind farms. The Renewable Energy IPP Programme is a bidding process for a total capacity of 3,725 MW through five rounds. The South African government recently announced its intention to launch a new renewable energy programme once the current one has been completed, in order to add another 3,200 MW of clean generation to the grid before 2020.
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