The Lesedi Solar Park is a 75- megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic power plant in

Kimberley, Northern Cape Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It is located approximately 110 km east of the confluence of the Vaal and Orange Rivers. The city has considerable historical significance due to it ...

, South Africa. The solar park with 277,632 PV

solar panels A solar cell panel, solar electric panel, photo-voltaic (PV) module, PV panel or solar panel is an assembly of photovoltaic solar cells mounted in a (usually rectangular) frame, and a neatly organised collection of PV panels is called a phot ...

which went fully on line in May 2014, and will supply electricity for 65,000 homes, while reducing the use of pollution-generating

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