The (EPC) contract was awarded to Eiffage Énergie Systèmes, a subsidiary of the French . To mitigate the lack of sunshine at night, the developers of this solar farm decided to install a 10MW/13.8MWh lithium (BESS). Eiffage Énergie Systèmes has selected Saft, a subsidiary of , to design and install the BESS, in six containers on site. Ivory Coast's state-run utility Ci-Energies has launched two tenders for the construction of 100 MW solar power plants, each connected to 33 MWh of storage capacity. In the first tender, Ci-Energies is seeking proposals for a plant in Dabakala, a town in the country’s northeast.
[pdf] Chile Energy Minister Diego Pardow was present at the inauguration of the 200 MW/800 MWh BESS del Desierto, a project its developers describe as the first large-scale standalone energy storage plant in Latin America.
[pdf] The largest hybrid farm in Central and Eastern Europe will be built in Poland, combining a photovoltaic and a wind power plants with a total capacity of 205 MW. The annual production will supply electricity to more than 100,000 households and reduce CO2 emissions by nearly 160 tons.
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