São Tomé and Príncipe will have a new photovoltaic power station to produce more than 10MW of energy, in a 60.7 million dollar project co-financed by the World Bank, the African Development Bank and Japan. The project will last five years and will start in March.
[pdf] At its core, the system combines solar photovoltaic arrays with a flow battery storage setup that could power 15,000 homes. But here's the kicker—they're using retired EV batteries from Europe, giving old power packs new purpose under the African sun [1].
[pdf] Global Leading energy storage company, Jinko ESS, a subsidiary of Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. today announced the deployment of a 2.15MWh Commercial & Industrial (C&I) energy storage project in El Salvador, utilizing 10 of its advanced liquid-cooled SunGiga 215kWh systems.
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