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World Bank Group has approved plans to develop Botswana’s first utility-scale battery energy storage system with a capacity of 50MW/200MWh.

The Ministry of Energy and Water Resources (MoEWR) of Somalia has issued a competitive tender for the provision of solar and storage technology at 46 different sites in the country.

Over the past few days, non-lithium long-duration energy storage (LDES) technology providers have made a plethora of announcements.

Norway-headquartered renewable energy company Scatec will add 28.6MW of solar PV and 19.2MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to projects in Cameroon, via a local subsidiary.

The government of Mauritius has welcomed the commissioning of a 20MW battery storage project which will provide frequency regulation to the East African island nation’s grid.

Battery storage project development costs will continue to fall in 2024 as lithium costs decline “significantly,” according to BMI Research.

Iron flow battery company ESS Inc will provide Nigeria-based IPP Sapele Power 1MW/8MWh of its systems, it announced while also revealing its first quarter financials.

Zambian developer GEI Power and Turkish energy technology firm YEO are aiming to have a 60MWp PV, 20MWh BESS project in Zambia online by September 2025.

This Friday Briefing looks at the rich prospects for putting batteries onto brownfield power plant sites, with regard to news stories from South Africa and New England, US.