Report CSP Workshop, South Africa (2009)
Submitted by Hans Craen on October 13, 2009This is the report of a CSP workshop, which took place in South Africa on 22 May 2009. The workshop results from the necessity to gather project developers, the government, NGOs and research centers to start a discussion on scaling up CSP.
In South Africa, the development of CSP infrastructure has been boosted by the government which policy is to encourage renewable energy projects via financial measures and incentives such as the Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff (REFIT) or the Clean Development Mechanism.
The workshop discussions allowed to identify the technical, infrastructure and industry requirements for large-scale rollout of CSP in South Africa and to propose a number of recommendations for the future.
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