Impact Alpha

JUNE 21, 2021

ImpactAlpha, June 21 – Berkeley Energy is looking to build hydro, wind and solar projects, as well as battery storage facilities, to meet Africa’s. The post Berkeley Energy raises €130 million for second Africa Renewable Energy Fund appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

What is said to be the world’s largest off-grid solar-battery hybrid system for the mining industry has been commissioned at a gold mine in Mali, West Africa. MWh battery storage system smooths generation fluctuations. MWh battery storage system smooths generation fluctuations.

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PV Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Norwegian independent power producer Scatec has powered a 540MW solar-plus-storage project in South Africa.

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Solar Industry

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Scatec has begun producing and supplying electricity to the South Africa national grid from its three Kenhardt plants in Northern Cape Province. The project, one of the world’s first and largest hybrid solar and battery storage facilities, has an installed solar capacity of 540 MW and a battery storage capacity of 225 MW.

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Energy Storage News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Key contracts have been signed for the first-ever grid-scale battery storage project in Namibia, signifying the African country’s dedication to modernising its energy infrastructure, according to a top local official.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 12, 2022

On the face of it, the power sector in Africa seems to be in trouble. The role of Africa in the world’s energy future is changing as efuels are touted as the answer to the current challenges facing traditional energy systems. VIEW THE ENLIT AFRICA PROGRAMME. Storage and renewable energy. Hydrogen future.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 17, 2023

Featured: Impact in China Can China’s impact investing ecosystem expand beyond green energy and ESG? China manufactures more batteries. Greetings, Agents of Impact!

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Energy Storage News

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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

New Minerals for Future Clean Energy Technologies Partnership will promote responsible exploration, production, and processing of minerals in South Africa. Demand for minerals used in clean technologies is set to soar in recent years, sparking concerns over both security of supply and the environmental impact of large scale extraction.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

South Africa’s first public battery storage tender has awarded preferred bidder status to a consortium of CIP-owned Mulilo and renewables major EDF for three battery projects totalling 257MW/ 1,028MWh. When completed, the three projects will dispatch electricity under 15-year power purchase agreements to South Africa.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 8, 2022

Energy Dome and Ansaldo Energia have announced a partnership to bring energy storage facilities to Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Long-duration energy storage solutions provider Energy Dome will provide the CO2 battery technology. Image courtesy of Energy Dome. CO2 battery technology.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Protecting satellite imagery from fraud, Citopia network for a global battery passport and a high performance non-flammable battery option for warm climates are on the week’s technology radar. For example, the Battery Pass initiative has identified no less than 90 data attributes that could be included in a battery passport.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

And at Accelerate this year, you will hear from entrepreneurs who are based in cities across Europe, Africa, and the U.S. . Immense amounts of water, energy and chemicals are put into the dying process, making this issue a cross-cutting factor in the road to creating a circular economy in the fashion industry. Courtesy of.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

New IEA report reveals encouraging recent trends have been thrown into reverse by the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine - but clean energy investment could swiftly reignite development.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

Italian long-duration storage developer Energy Dome has launched the first CO2 battery demonstration nationally. The facility in Sardinia, Italy is aimed to mark the final de-risking of CO2 battery technology as a long-duration storage option as the company takes it to the commercial scaling phase. Have you read?

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Global Renewable News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Scatec ASA has been awarded preferred bidder status for the Mogobe (Ferrum) battery energy storage project totalling 103 MW/ 412 MWh under the first bid window of the Battery Energy Storage Independen.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

South Africa’s utility Eskom is preparing to launch a tender for 1.4 gigawatt-hours of battery storage that will need to be installed by December 2021. The second phase will include 60 megawatts of solar to be integrated with the battery storage, along with an asset performance management system.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A new partnership aims to deliver solar-powered computers to 10,000 children a year across schools in Madagascar and East Africa. The computers will go to schools that do not have access to reliable power, helping to reduce a gulf in digital literacy arising from a lack of energy access. These computers can change lives.

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TechXplore

APRIL 18, 2024

Researchers from The University of Manchester investigating waste management practices for off-grid solar technologies in Malawi have discovered life-threatening quantities of lead pollution from improperly managed battery waste.

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Energy Storage News

MAY 8, 2024

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.

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The City Fix

MARCH 28, 2024

Like many parts of Africa, motorcycles are the most popular form of transportation among Rwanda’s 13.3 million people. Whether they’re commuting to work or school, transporting jugs of water from the local taps or just running everyday errands, people on.

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Energy Storage News

APRIL 19, 2024

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.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Companies providing off-grid energy access raised over $2.1 However, while investments in energy access have rapidly accelerated since 2016, total volumes still fall short of the estimated financing needed to reach universal electricity access around the world by 2030. The C&I energy access opportunity. Globally, nearly 3.5

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altenergymag

AUGUST 27, 2021

Sungrow offers the 1,500V 6.25MW PV inverter solution and the highly integrated energy storage system with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. The project is located near the Red Sea, facing the challenge of scorching heat and high corrosion.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2019

BBOXX, an Imperial London College spinout launched in 2010, has installed about 200,000 home solar systems across Africa, many of them coffee and vanilla bean farmers living off-grid. Roughly 600 million of Africa’s 1.2 billion at the end of 2018. Overall, the solar home system market has raised more than $1.1

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees a new study from BDEW and CapGemini detail how sustainable transformation and decarbonisation purchasing are more important than ever for Austrian and German utility Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals. Series A for silicon Li-ion battery anode. Microgrid debt financing.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 30, 2020

Total, via its energy storage company Saft, and Opel, part of France's Groupe PSA, will kick off the arrangement with an exploratory research and development pilot plant opening next year. “In 2015, Total set an ambition to become the responsible energy major," said Total CEO Patrick Pouyanné in a statement.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

More scrutiny is being placed on the carbon cost of battery manufacturing, in both the automotive and stationary storage sectors. Manufacturing emissions are lower for conventional vehicles than for EVs, where the batteries make up around 30 percent of greenhouse gas output. We need to talk about graphite.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

In this week’s edition of Smart Energy’s Power Playbook, Yusuf Latief looks into an analysis of the financial impact of a potentially delayed energy transition, how much money is needed across segments for net zero and where our priorities should be when we consider raising capital. The timing of Wood Mackenzie’s analysis is apt.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Technology company Huawei Digital Power has been awarded a contract to build what is claimed to be the world’s largest battery energy storage system in Saudi Arabia. Huawei will be partnering with Chinese construction and engineering company SEPCO111 to deliver the energy storage system as part of the Red Sea Project.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Leading this week’s Smart Energy Finances is pre-seed funding of half a million euros for Finnish startup Capalo AI, which will further develop its virtual power plant and market optimisation technology. This has led to the construction of batteries next to the turbines, which enables the energy to be discharged into the grid more evenly.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2023

Octopus Energy Group and TAQA funnel further investment into ambitious plan to directly link UK grid with huge solar, wind, and battery facility in North Africa

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The City Fix

MARCH 27, 2024

At COP28, global climate leaders congregated in Dubai for the annual opportunity to review countries’ progress on emissions reductions and to increase climate ambition. One of the conference’s focal points was how to rapidly and equitably transition away from fossil.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Insiders predict agricultural companies could become major adopters of solar power in Africa as farmers seek to improve the cost and reliability of energy supplies. megawatt-hour battery system for its farm, pump sites, pack house and cold store. To overcome this problem, Nhimbe is procuring around 1.9

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Africa is full of potential infrastructure project opportunities in the pipeline. This is according to Hendrik Malan, CEO and partner at Frost & Sullivan and one of many expert speakers who will address the upcoming Africa’s Green Economy Summit taking place from 22–24 February 2023. Infrastructure investment opportunities.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 17, 2022

Jaguar Land Rover is partnering with Italian technology supplier Pramac on a portable energy storage unit with second-life I-PACE batteries. The Off Grid Battery Energy Storage System features lithium-ion cells from Jaguar I-PACE electric vehicle batteries taken from prototype and engineering test models.

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Global Renewable News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Globeleq, the leading independent power company in Africa and its project partners, Source Energia, an energy developer focused on Lusophone Africa, and Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), the Mozambi.

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