Africa’s energy storage market has seen a boom since 2017, having risen from 31MWh to 1,600MWh in 2024, according to trade body AFSIA Solar’s latest report.
Lumea, the commercial arm of Australian transmission system operator Transgrid, has commenced grid works to connect the 1.6GWh Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub (MREH) in Victoria, Australia.
The Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) in New South Wales, Australia, has increased in size, now allowing 7.7GW of renewable energy generation and energy storage capacity to connect to it.
Executives from investor Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners discussed its three BESS projects in Scotland totalling 1.5GW/3GWh which have all now reached FID, the largest BESS in Europe to do so.
IPP Polat Energy is deploying multiple renewables-plus-BESS projects in Turkey, and has ordered a 132MWh BESS from the system integration arm of Rolls-Royce for one of them.
Chinese multinational renewable energy solutions provider Envision Energy will supply a 320MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to Juniper Green Energy in India.
Western Australia and Victoria’s AusNet have provided financial aid to support battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the energy transition and community energy resiliency.
Global solar developer Lightsource bp and Acen Australia have seen each of their respective solar-plus-storage projects in New South Wales, Australia, totalling 550MW of generation capacity, progress.
