KaXu Solar One, South Africa's first solar thermal electricity plant to reach completion was officially opened near Pofadder in the sparsely populated Northern Cape on Monday, 2 March 2015. The arid region's relentless sun is proving to be a valuable renewable natural resource that ultimately will benefit the local community, the country as a whole, and the environment. KaXu Solar One is the first solar thermal electricity (STE) plant in South Africa. It is also the biggest of its kind in Africa and the southern hemisphere.

Read South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) press release.

Photo credit: Kaxu Solar One/IDC.