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Solar power: The “African” Opportunity

Technical Workshop: Solar SOSAfrica Utility Week, May 16th 2018

Sashay RamdhareeRegional Project Manager

ABOUT

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The National Cleaner Production Centre of South

Africa (NCPC-SA), a programme of the dti hosted

by the CSIR, supports South African industry to

improve competitiveness and reduce its

environmental footprint through the

implementation of resource efficiency and cleaner

production (RECP) methodologies.

THEMATIC AREAS

Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production

focuses on four main thematic areas:

- Energy

- Water

- Waste (output material)

- Materials (input)

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INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECT

- Partnership with UNIDO

- Energy Management Systems

- Energy Systems Optimisation

INDUSTRIAL WATER EFFICIENCY PROJECT

- Launched early 2016

- Partnership with WRC

- Uses component approach of

IEE Project

INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS PROGRAMME

MATERIALS (Input) WASTE (Output)

- Adresses input materials and output Waste reduction

- Gauteng, KwaZulu Natal and Western Cape ISP

- National ISP strategy

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Global Perspective on Solar Power

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How important is solar energy?

• Our global energy consumption in one year is roughly equivalent to the energy which we receive from the sun in just one hour.

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How important is solar energy?

• The amount of solar energy available at any time depends on the position of the sun in the sky, the local climatic conditions, the time of the year and geographical location.

• (orange areas in figure “Map of global solar resource”)

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Solar Power in Africa

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• Africa is often considered and referred as the "Sun continent" or the continent where the Sun's influence is

the greatest.

• According to the "World Sunshine Map", Africa receives many more hours of bright sunshine during the course of the year than any other continent of the Earth

• Despite the large solar potential, penetration of solar power in Africa's energy sector is still very low.

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• The whole continent has a long duration of sunshine, excluding the large areas of tropical rainforests (Guinean Forests of West Africa and much of the Congo Basin)

• The eastern Sahara is particularly noted for its world sunshine records, with a greatest mean annual duration of bright sunshine of approx. 4,300 hours/year.

• This region also has the highest mean annual values of solar radiation (the maximum recorded being over 220 kcal/cm2).

• The theoretical reserves of Africa's solar energy are estimated at 60,000,000 TWh/year, which accounts for almost 40% of the global total, thus reinforcing Africa as the most sun-rich continent in the world.

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• Future installations for harvesting solar energy in Africa will tend not to be found within the equatorial and subequatorial climate zones, that are located in the western part of Central Africa, due to almost permanent cloud cover.

• Therefore, countries that entirely lie in this wet-humid zone such as the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Liberia and Sierra Leone are by far the least favoured in solar power

• Sunny African nations like Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Niger, Sudan, South Africa and Namibia experience over 2,700 hours of bright sunshine.

• Opportunity exists to develop their tremendous solar resources.

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• A 50 MW photovoltaic power plant is planned for Garissa in

Kenya, expected to produce approximately 76,473

MWh/year.

• A 155 MW photovoltaic power plant is planned for Ghana

and the government plans to increase solar power in the

country from 22.5MW in 2017 to 300MW in 2020.

• There are also many small-scale modular solar power

installations being implemented across the continent at the

village and household levels.

• In 2015, Sub-Saharan Africa was the leading region for

purchases of off-grid solar products.

Proudly African Solar Projects

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• South Africa is a leader in solar power in Africa with 1329

MW installed by 2016.

• Solar power in South Africa is rapidly growing. Several

75MW PV plants and 2 CSP plants at 100MW each were the largest in the country and among the largest in Africa.

• South Africa has announced a plan to install a minigrid on

Robben Island

• …..

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• Several solar farms have been commissioned

since 2014, including the 96 MW Jasper Solar

Energy Project, one of Africa's largest

photovoltaic power stations providing enough

solar power for 30,000 homes

• Drastic reductions in the cost of solar

photovoltaic (PV) panels in recent years, along

with uncertainty regarding Eskom pricing and

continuity of supply, have fuelled huge growth in

the installation of rooftop solar in South Africa.

• The increased popularity of these systems has led

to the growth of a robust installation industry.

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Jasper Solar Energy Project, Northern Cape

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Africa's total installed cumulative solar PV capacity and

annual new additions, 2001-2015.

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• To date, renewable energy projects in South Africa have resulted in 20 000 jobs for

South Africans and have attracted R 192.6 billion in investment.

• Furthermore, IPPs have committed a total of R 19.1 billion toward socio-economic development initiatives within the communities in which they operate, thereby

positively contributing to livelihoods and income generation

• Prices have dropped over the four bidding phases with average solar PV tariffs

decreasing by 83%, wind by 59% and CSP dropping by 43%

• The South African Department of Energy (DoE) has already allocated a total of 8.1

GW of renewables for procurement from Independent Power Producers (IPPs) •… of this, 1 460 MW of wind, 1 474 MW of solar PV and 200 MW of CSP were operational and fed

energy into the grid by Dec 2016

Overview of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power

Producer Procurement Programme REIPPPP

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Actual Reductions in tariff for new wind, solar PV and CSP

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• Total monthly wind, solar PV and CSP production from Jan to Dec 2016

varied between 431 GWh and 765 GWh:

The monthly wind production from Jan to Dec 2016 varied between 226

and 390 GWh

The monthly solar PV production from Jan to Dec 2016 varied between

150 and 330 GWh

The monthly CSP production from Jan to Dec 2016 varied between 29

and 58 GWh

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• From 1 November 2013 to 31 Dec 2016, 1 460 MW of wind, 1 474MWof solar PV and 200 MW of CSP became operational in RSA,

supplying 2.9% of SA’s system load

2016 statistics: load supplied from wind, solar PV & CSP in RSA

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In 2016, 6.9 TWh of wind, solar PV and CSP energy produced in RSA

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THANK YOU

Any Questions?

PHONE: 074 254 3488EMAIL: sramdharee@csir.co.za

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