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Stretching as far as the eye can see, huge fields of solar panels have just been switched on in South Africa to try and plug the country's electricity deficit. Just two weeks after George Airport became the first on the continent to be powered by energy from the sun, a huge solar energy and storage plant opened today in the Northern Cape province. It will have one of the world's biggest solar radiation footprints and promises to generate enough power for a quarter of a million homes, day and night. Susannah Streeter spoke to Nandu Bhula, managing director of the ACWA Power plant, and he explained how the technology works.

(Picture: ACWA Power plant in South Africa. Picture credit: ACWA Power.)