Peru’s high-altitude solar farms are testing vanadium flow batteries that laugh in the face of thin air. Meanwhile, the Majes Project —a pumped hydro storage beast—is storing enough energy to power 500,000 homes. Talk about thinking big!
[pdf] East African country, Kenya, has launched its very first Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to supply uninterrupted renewable power to its modular data center in the nation’s capital, Nairobi.
[pdf] It will cost around 60 million euros and aims to significantly increase energy storage capacity in the country1. Additionally, the Red Sands project in the Northern Cape is set to become the largest standalone battery energy storage system in Africa2. [pdf]
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