Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 17 | Page 27

PROJECT UPDATE ALGERIA Two 16-storey twin towers are to build in El Biar District, Algier, Algeria. The ground floor of the building will feature an entrance hall, reception, conference hall and a VIP banking branch, which extends to the first floor and the basement. The second floor of the building will feature a cafeteria for employees while the remaining floors will have space for office uses. SOUTH AFRICA A solar power plant is being developed at Pofadder, Northern Cape, South Africa. Xina Solar One is a 100-megawatt (MW) parabolic trough plant with a five- hour thermal energy storage system using molten salts. The plant will produce enough energy to serve more than 90,000 households and will prevent the emission of more than 398,000 tonnes of CO 2 per year when compared to a natural-gas plant. The plant will use parabolic trough technology and a superheated steam cycle with a storage capacity of 1,650 MWh (equivalent to approximately five hours of full capacity operation), configured to be used during the South African peak load demand. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 27