hybrid power solutions

Energy experts at this year’s Windaba conference predict that our future energy mix is likely to include dispatchable power in the form of hybrid systems.

Inverter supplier Sungrow is supplying equipment to Juwi Renewable Energy for a hybrid 36MW off-grid solar farm with a 7.5MW battery energy storage system at Sukari gold mine in Egypt.

The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), managed by the African Development Bank, has secured $90 million in new funding. This is after the fund reported a record number of transactions for 2020.

Following its $38 million series-B fundraise in January, and a $4 million financing for its Ghanaian subsidiary with DEG, Daystar Power has secured $62 million in financing this year.

“Not only focusing on the bottom line but also incorporating softer, strategic goals clearly paid off,” says Laura Cornish, Editor-in-Chief, Mining Review Africa.

Adani Renewable Energy Holding Eight, a subsidiary of Adani Green Energy, has won a contract to build a 600MW wind-solar hybrid power project in India.

The Big Question we asked the experts is: What are the considerations that businesses should be mindful of when employing hybrid energy solutions?

This article on hybrid energy solutions is an extract from the Investment & Impact Report published in advance of the Africa Energy Forum 2020.

juwi Renewable Energy, the Australia subsidiary of international project developer juwi, has completed the first Stage of the 23MW hybrid power station, which will be Australia's largest once completed.

Resolute Mining has partnered with Aggreko for the development of a new hybrid modular power station at the company’s Syama Gold Mine in Mali.