Mulilo, the dominant first mover in South Africa’s on-grid battery energy storage system (Bess) IPP market, predicts that grid constraints and a healthy pipeline of new solar PV and wind projects will see increased demand for batteries going forward. The need for utility-scale battery systems has been caused by the grid constraints that are slowing down renewable energy plant development times, as well as the vast scale of new renewable IPPs, write Tonderayi Mukeredzi and Marc Howard in Cape Town.
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Issue 544 – 29 June 2026
Power, Strategy & risk, Climate change, Finance & investment
Issue 544 – 29 June 2026
South Africa
Power, Commercial & industrial, Renewable energy, Thermal energy, Transmission & distribution, Strategy & risk, Finance & investment, Politics & security
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