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‘South Africa is a trailblazer’: Electricity minister opens solar-plus-storage plant with 1,140MWh BESS

April 19, 2024
South Africa’s electricity minister has said the largest solar-plus-storage project in the Southern Hemisphere is evidence of efforts to mitigate the country’s difficult energy security situation.
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South Africa’s public utility Eskom brings online first large-scale BESS from 1,440MWh procurement

November 13, 2023
Eskom, the public utility company of South Africa, has inaugurated a 20MW/100MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) aimed at mitigating the challenging situation facing the country’s grid.
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Grid storage projects should be ‘immediate priority’ for South Africa to control load-shedding

July 7, 2023
South Africa needs to prioritise grid-located battery storage if it is to overcome the ongoing ‘load-shedding’ power outage crisis plaguing the country.
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Use batteries to avoid load-shedding, South Africa’s Eskom tells town’s power supplier

April 26, 2023
It is “unacceptable” for a rural electricity supplier to use solar to prevent load-shedding, but batteries or other grid-independent electricity sources could be used, Eskom said.
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Battery storage helping California avoid curtailment, but shedding set to grow further in 2023

January 23, 2023
Battery storage has a big role to play in helping reduce renewable energy curtailment in California but the amount of shedded load will still grow in 2023, an analyst told Energy-Storage.news.
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Times of change in the Indian battery energy storage market

January 15, 2015

Will the Indian battery market scenario witness a major change? As the power supply in the country continues to be unreliable, the role of batteries has to change from being an emergency back-up solution to a long time power/energy storage solution.

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