RE: Cape Town announces plans to build and operate a R1.2bn solar plant with battery storage.19 Apr 2023 15:05
Know what you mean Sharesahoy, but it’s probably still a bit of an unknown at this time, they have to complete the feasibility study first, and then may have to go out for tender for the BESS?
However … as this is Cape Town and so very much a home grown project and will almost certainly need a very long duration BESS solution to meet the intended needs, a VRFB solution maybe seen to be the most likely choice.
Imo, although we’ll once again have to wait and see what develops, it’s surely becoming more and more obvious that a large capacity VRFB manufacturing and assembly facility is desperately needed, one that is capable of churning out large quantities of VRFB units if they are ever going to be able to compete for larger scale projects with other more well established BESS solutions. They now got the nectar coming on tap, they now need a way of providing the huge numbers of units that are required to pour it into!