RICHARD HALSEY: Revised electricity infrastructure plan must recognise the benefits of energy storage

Strategically located energy storage can help optimise the use of the existing transmission grid.

While this is just one of many benefits it can provide, it is an important one for the government to factor in when deciding how much storage capacity to procure at the national level.

Adding ample energy storage means additional solar capacity can be built and fully used by storing surplus power generated during the day to be used later in the day when solar generation drops. This stored electricity can then be discharged in the evening and at night as required, resulting in much more electricity being supplied within the existing grid allocation over the same duration, compared to before the storage was added.

Though Eskom maintains and manages the grid, it is the department of mineral resources & energy that is responsible for calculating the amount of energy storage to procure nationally. Its IRP is still the official electricity infrastructure development blueprint, and the current IRP from 2019 allocates much less battery capacity to 2030 than the Eskom TDP 2022.

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