Khi Solar One is likely to be just the second CSP plantcommissioned on the African continent following the under-construction 160MWNoor 1 in Morocco – and the first based on “power tower” technology.

Noor 1 – like the 100MW KaXu Solar One which Abengoa isbuilding three hours from the Khi Solar One site in South Africa’s NorthernCape – is based on the more widely deployed parabolic-trough CSP technology.

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