Crossboundary Energy Access, an investment platform which is project financing solar-powered mini-grid projects in rural Africa, has secured US$50 million funding.

JinkoSolar has signed distribution agreement for its battery storage solutions with a Nigeria-headquartered business systems integrator.

Renewable energy power producer Scatec has signed power purchase agreements (PPA) for three co-located solar and storage projects with 1.1GWh of energy storage in South Africa.

A solar and storage project totalling 20MW has entered commercial operation in Malawi, which the companies involved say is the first grid-connected utility-scale co-located project to do so in sub-Saharan Africa.

The secretary-general of the UN has highlighted the crucial role battery storage can play in tackling the global climate crisis.

Cellcube has signed a five-year agreement with an energy asset developer to deploy 1GW-plus of its vanadium redox flow batteries (VFRBs) in Southern Africa, but CEO Alexander Schoenfeldt tells Energy-Storage.news the company’s supply chain has a long way to go before getting to that kind of number.

A lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) made by Saft will be installed at a 37.5MWp solar PV power plant in Côte d’Ivoire.

The global energy storage market will grow to deploy 58GW/178GWh annually by 2030, according to forecasting by BloombergNEF.

Update 5 April 2022: A Hyosung Heavy Industries representative told Energy-Storage.news the BESS will be 48MW rated output with 192MWh capacity.

Island nations Mauritius and Barbados have both begun renewable energy procurement processes that involve energy storage.