Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 15 | Page 27

PROJECT UPDATE TANZANIA A retail development is underway in Fumba, Zanzibar. The project consists of an area of 160 acres with a 1.5 km seafront. It will have 1,085,395 square metres of residential space, 269,847 square metres of commercial space, 14,164 square metres of recreational space and 122,580 square metres of green space. The residential properties are based on a modern and sustainable infrastructure, with commercial, educational and recreational areas to create a new, modern lifestyle in Zanzibar. It offers a German designed Prefab House System. The first 400 units of the 1,500-unit on the coast will be delivered by the end of next year. SOUTH AFRICA Kathu Solar Park is being developed in the Northern Cape Province, 600 km south west of Pretoria. It is a greenfield 100-megawatt Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project with parabolic trough technology and equipped with a molten salt storage system that allows four-and-a-half hours of thermal energy storage. Once in operation, Kathu Solar Park will have the capacity to supply 80,000 households across South Africa and will help reduce carbon emissions by 300,000 tonnes every year. The parabolic trough technology operates by tracking the sun with the parabolic reflectors and focusing the sun’s rays into an absorber pipe. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 27