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The EPC and development partner, COENG, has signed a strategic agreement with EnergyTech Africa. This agreement will see the two partners embark on a journey that could potentially culminate in a 4GW battery cell manufacturing plant in South Africa by 2030.
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Mpanza said emphasising local manufacturing places both COENG and EnergyTech Africa at the forefront of the local battery value chain, which the World Bank estimates will grow to more than 3,000GwH by 2030 as per their flagship report, South Africa & Southern Africa Battery Market & Value Chain Assessment Report.
Could locally produced batteries be a solution to Africa's energy crisis?
“With Eskom 's new 1.4 GWh energy storage project, locally produced batteries may provide a good opportunity for a true local solution to an urgent need,” says Naicker. “The lack of affordable batteries has prohibited the mass-penetration of much-needed energy storage solutions throughout Africa,” he adds.
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“If Li-ion batteries could be manufactured in Africa, on the appropriate scale, they would become more affordable, enabling power users to rely more on renewable energy than they do now,” said Bernard Jan Bladergroen, the head of the Energy Storage Innovation Lab at the University of the Western Cape.