Key Figures & Findings: Huawei Digital Power Sub-Saharan Africa has signed on as the exclusive OEM for the Palabora Mining Company (PMC) solar-plus-storage project, a flagship venture packaged by developer Journey 2 Green through its Mzansi Energy Consortium and announced at the 2025 SNEC Expo in Shanghai.
[pdf] The project, considered the world's largest solar-storage project, will install 3.5GW of solar photovoltaic capacity and a 4.5GWh battery storage system. The project has commenced in November 2024.
[pdf] Salt River Project (SRP) and Google this week announced what the companies are calling a “first-of-its-kind” research collaboration to better understand the real-world performance of emerging non-lithium-ion long duration energy storage (LDES) technologies, hoping to accelerate the advancements needed to deploy LDES at scale.
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