The City of Cape Town has announced that it has opened bidding to potential tenderers to construct a battery energy storage facility. The facility will be constructed at the City's Atlantis Solar PV plant, targeting a minimum rated power output of 5MW and a useable energy. The Hex BESS is the first project to be completed under Eskom's flagship BESS project announced in July 2022 to help alleviate the pressure on the national electricity grid. The BESS project serves as a direct response to meet one of the urgent needs to address South Africa's long-running. been an unprecedented escalation in load-shedding. While the City of Cape Town has been able to protect City supply area customers from up to two stages of load-shedding, the current levels are severely disruptive to the local economy, its future growth and esses, and the environment for future. The City of Cape Town will,in the third quarter of this year,release an RFP for 100MW of battery energy storage systems in an effort to bolster energy security.
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Will Cape Town release an RFP for 100MW battery energy storage?
The City of Cape Town will, in the third quarter of this year, release an RFP for 100MW of battery energy storage systems in an effort to bolster energy security.
ties and the City of Cape Town's Energy StrategyTHE KEY AREAS OF ALIGNMENT INCLUDE: Decarbonisation of electricity is evidenced through the City of Cape Town's delivery and support of new renewable energy sources (whether owned or procured by the City or from the private sector) to reduce the local grid emissions factor. This is
What is Cape Town's energy strategy?
TY OF CAPE TOWNFOREWORDFROM THE EXECUTIVE MAYORWith this Energy Strategy, Cape Town is charting the long-term path to 2050, as we make the great transition from centralised supply of unreliable, costly and fossil fuel-based Eskom energy, to an increasingly decentralised supply of reliable, cost-effective, carbo
upply areas by 2026.CRITICAL CITY LOAD MITIGATIONEnsure critical services across Cape Town, such as municipal ofices, hospitals, and trafic signals, are shielded from load-shedding, as far as possible, and have the back-up energy needed to