A roundup of energy storage news from across the continent of Africa, with Morocco’s ONEE shortlisting bidders for a pumped hydro project, Somalia launching a grid-scale solar and storage tender, and a microgrid pairing grid-scale solar, BESS and diesel at a mine in Zambia.
[pdf] Recently, with leading technical solutions and rich experience in energy storage project performance, Pinggao Group successfully won the bid for the EPC project of the 80MW/320MWh electrochemical energy storage power station of the South African National Power Company, with a contract value of 761 million yuan.
[pdf] More than 20 firms and consortiums have responded to an invitation to bid to build grid-connected solar parks and battery energy storage systems (BESS) in West African countries under a World Bank-funded programme.
[pdf] Lithium-ion batteries must be handled with extreme care from when they're created, to being transported, to being recycled. Recycling is extremely vital to limiting the environmental impacts of lithium-ion batteries. By recycling the batteries, emissions and energy consumption can be reduced as less lithium would need to be mined and processed.
[pdf] China's first megawatt-level iron-chromium flow battery energy storage project, located in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, is currently under construction and about to be put into commercial use, said its operator State Power Investment Corp.
[pdf] On June 12th, Linyang Energy announced that a consortium formed by its Linyang Power Services and China Water Resources and Electric Power Corporation has successfully won the bid for the Mauritius government's grid side energy storage project, with a bid amount of 24.9889 million US dollars (excluding tax), equivalent to approximately 179 million yuan, accounting for 2.66% of the company's 2024 revenue.
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