OPINION | How SA can make the most of its fast-growing network of virtual power plants
South Africa's network of virtual power plants is growing fast. The potential of VPPs has barely been tapped yet in SA, sayIncreasingly in use in South Africa, Virtual Power Plants are a network of different power sources, such as wind, solar and battery energy storage systems working together, sometimes at different locations.
VPP operators use smart software to connect these distributed energy resources and act as a single, consistent power source. This allows them to sell electricity to the grid, just like a traditional power plant, but with the option to select the source technology/ies of dispatch at any point in time.
Many of the large independent power producers – both local and international – established in the SA market are active in this burgeoning space, such as Engie, EDF, Red Rocket, ACED and Scatec. The Umoyilanga project, under way with French renewable energy group EDF Renewables and funded by RMB, is an example.
These power plants stand as significant dispatchable renewable energy plants, even by global standards.
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