The World Bank Group today approved the Mauritania Development of Energy Resources and Mineral Sector Support Project—known as the DREAM Project—to boost green hydrogen development, expand energy storage, and support critical reforms in the mining sector.
[pdf] The project concerns the development of a hybrid power project consisting of a 30MW ground-based photovoltaic (PV) power generation plant and a 15MW/45MWh Battery Energy Storage System in Senegal. 55 GWh of power produced 37 000 tCO 2 eq/year of emissions avoided 275 jobs created 150 000 people served
[pdf] The project, with a total investment of more than €75 million, will benefit from the expertise of Saft, TotalEnergies' battery affiliate, which will supply the project with the latest-generation of electricity storage technology (iShift LFP —lithium-iron-phosphate— containers).
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