The seventh bidding round of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) has opened for interested parties.
Clean energy investment across Africa has to double the current US$90 billion target by 2030 and reach nearly US$25 billion per year, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the African Development Bank Group (AfDB).
French utility EDF Renewables has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with South African state-operated utility Eskom for a hybrid project to be built in South Africa.
In this article, Richard Doyle, MD of JUWI Renewable Energies South Africa, discusses the benefits, lessons and future of solar PV with battery energy storage for mining.