December 22, 2022: Mozambique is asking for expressions of curiosity to assist proposals to construct battery vitality storage techniques at 10 websites within the African nation.
The African Growth Financial institution, which has supplied unspecified funding to assist a renewable vitality integration program in Mozambique, mentioned a part of the funding might be used to have interaction in consultancy companies for BESS tasks, along with -assess proposals for pumped storage hydropower plant.
The Mozambican authorities mentioned that battery storage techniques are wanted to beat the challenges related to large-scale grid integration of renewables.
Expressions of curiosity have to be delivered to Mozambique’s renewable vitality directorate by January 27, 2023. Particulars are on-line.
Battery and Vitality Storage Bulletin reported on September 9 {that a} consortium of worldwide companions, together with the Consortium for Battery Innovation, gained a €10 million ($9.9 million) name beneath the EU’s flagship analysis and innovation funding instrument, Horizon Europe, to deploy the lead battery know-how within the coronary heart. of two progressive pilot vitality storage techniques for Zambia and Ivory Coast.
Worldwide Battery Difficulty 125 of the journal takes an in-depth have a look at the prospects for a serious growth of battery manufacturing and funding within the deployment of BESS techniques and associated tasks throughout Africa.
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Photograph: African Growth Financial institution VP for personal sector, infrastructure and industrialization, Solomon Quaynor, (proper) with Mozambican authorities minister Ernesto Max Elias Tonela in August 2022.
