Ncondezi Energy Looking To Install 300 MW Hybrid Storage In Mozambique

Ncondezi Energy, Mozambique, Africa based power company has started a feasibility study on the hybrid solar-storage system market in Mozambique. As per the company, the goal of this feasibility study is to determine whether the city of Tete is a viable location for a solar project with a 300 MW maximum generation capacity and a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS).

In 2019, Ncondezi and Chinese engineering firm China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) signed an agreement to work together on the coal-fired power station. Currently working on the said project, Ncondezi is exploring clean and coal-free energy sources.

The research, which is being led by engineering services provider WSP, will examine the viability of developing a project at one of three suitable sites that Ncondezi has already chosen. The Ncondezi mining area, which spans more than 25,000 hectares and can support more than 5GW of solar PV, includes all the places.

The feasibility study will evaluate the land on a modular design basis, investigating the potential for a scaled PV development program of 30 MW, 60 MW, 100 MW, 200 MW, and 300 MW. Each site has the potential to support up to 500 MW of solar PV.

The potential project would be set up to take advantage of “existing advanced stage development work” associated with a 300 MW thermal power plant that, according to Ncondezi, could “simply transfer to the solar project.”

Ncondezi is looking to export power to Mozambique’s system by 2024, which is six to twelve months earlier than would otherwise be feasible with a thermal plant.

According to CEO Hanno Pengilly, the projects that will be developed based on the study will draw interest from a “wide variety of investors” and the company anticipates the study to take about four months to complete.

A year after Ncondezi Green Power, Ncondezi Energy’s renewables business, inked a joint venture agreement with South African EPC NESA to target the C&I solar and battery energy storage system industries in South Africa, the company has proposed a solar project.