Dillinger heavy plate for South Africa’s first of its kind solar power plant

The solar power tower plant located in the Northern Cape region of South Africa will have an output of 50 MW and will provide clean and sustainable power for approximately 65,000 homes after completion. Thus it will avoid 183,000 tonnes of CO2-emission a year in context of renewable energy. Centerpiece of the heliostation is an integrated energy storage system which inaugurates the possibility to maintain power generation for duration of two hours during absence of solar radiation. For manufacturing of the here used steam accumulators Dillinger supplied 2,600 t of low alloyed pressure vessel steel SA 533 Type B Class 2 in thicknesses up to 107 mm.