Utility-scale batteries in South Africa: Improving grid stability and
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Grid-scale storage includes batteries and other technologies such as compressed air energy storage. South Africa, facing similar challenges with renewable energy intermittency, could benefit from adopting these proven energy storage technologies. Energy storage technologies, particularly batteries, lower greenhouse gas emissions.
South Africa’s state-owned utility Eskom anticipates that these projects will showcase the effectiveness of batteries in facilitating the integration of renewable energy into the country's energy mix, while simultaneously easing the strain on the national electricity grid.
Unveiled in 2023, thanks to $195 million from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and $220 million from AfDB, this flagship project represents the largest battery energy storage system (BESS) on the African continent.
South Africa is aiming to procure utility-scale battery storage with two tender programmes: its Battery Storage IPP Procurement Programme as well as hybrid battery storage and variable renewables projects through its Risk Mitigation IPP Procurement Programme.