The
development,
located
in
Touwsrivier,
near
the
company’s
existing
70kW
Aquila
pilot
facility,
will
feature
fifth-generation
Concentrix
technology,
which
has
demonstrated
in-field
efficiencies
of
over
28%.
“With
financing
now
in
place,
we
are
moving
forward
to
provide
South
Africa
with
its
first
large-scale
CPV
renewable-energy
plant,”
says
Soitec
chief
executive
André
Jacques
Auberton-Hervé.
The
French
company
built
a
500kW
CPV
plant
near
Durban
that
helped
to
power
the
United
Nation’s
recent
climate
change
summit.
In
December,
Soitec
was
tapped
by
South
Africa’s
Department
of
Energy
as
a
preferred
bidder
under
the
country’s…
