Huawei Digital Power has agreed to provide the complete solar PV and energy storage system (ESS) solution for what looks set to be the biggest project of its type in Africa so far.
The digital and power electronics division of Chinese tech company Huawei has signed a strategic cooperation agreement for the project in Ghana with Meinergy, a developer of projects in the electric power, mining and solar PV sectors in the West African country.
The project will include 1GW of solar PV generation and 500MWh of battery storage.
Huawei Digital Power and Meinergy have collaborated on previous clean energy projects in Ghana, including utility-scale PV, PV and hydropower hybrids, residential PV and energy storage. The pair expect to collaborate further on projects in Africa including PV and storage plants, data centres and cloud-computing, Huawei said.
Ghana already has quite a lot of hydroelectric power resources, which provide more than 40% of the country’s electricity, but the remainder of power on the grid is nearly all thermal generation and as of 2019, utility-scale solar only accounted for 0.6% of total installed generation capacity.
Source: ieefa
