Could South Africa be an important energy storage market in the making?
By Jason Deign South Africa’s potential as a market for energy storage could be set to improve following a change in leadership last month.
South Africa
South Africa supports storage
In an update to a story we first ran back in March, the government of South Africa has recently announced its backing for Ballard Power and Anglo American Platinum’s deployment of a domestic fuel cell system. Field trials…
SMA plans new South Africa factory
SMA Solar Technology is expanding its presence in South Africa with the creation of an inverter factory. “Here photovoltaics is already a financially attractive alternative to other forms of power generation,” said SMA chief executive Pierre-Pascal Urbon….
Bike powered storage wins design prize
South Africa-based Ideso has won a prestigious international design award for its PowerPac generation and energy storage unit. Retailing at around USD$668, PowerPac attaches to a common-or-garden bicycle to utilise peddle power and can store…