A roundup of energy storage news from Europe and South Africa, with Neoen, RWE and Bushveld / CellCube announcing major projects.

Norwegian state-backed credit agency Eksfin is providing US$100 million in guarantees for three co-located energy storage projects in South Africa from renewable energy developer Scatec.

The past week has seen thermal energy storage solution companies strike or execute on commercial deals across Norway, Greece, Israel and South Africa.

South Africa’s primary electricity supplier Eskom has announced details of forthcoming major battery storage deployments.

Renewable energy power producers Scatec has started building three co-located solar projects with 1.1 GW hours of energy storage in South Africa, after achieving financial close.

South African energy company Kibo Energy will procure two vanadium redox flow battery system pilot projects from CellCube, the first step in a larger rollout.

Ambri has received an order in South Africa for a 300MW energy storage system based on its proprietary liquid metal battery technology.

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.

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.

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