2010-04-30
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - French energy group Areva may build a 100 MW solar power plant in South Africa if the project can be included in the national energy plan under discussion in government, daily newspaper Business Day reported on Friday.
The company could start building the concentrated solar power plant between 2011 and 2012, the paper quoted Tom Bartolomei, the group's senior vice president for business development, as saying.
South Africa's vast solar potential is largely untouched due to the high costs of putting up solar power plants, but the country has said its solar thermal power potential was in the tens of thousands of megawatts.
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