Eskom announced that the construction of the first energy storage facility under Eskom’s flagship BESS project kicked off yesterday.
in Scotland To 1,050 MW / 2,100 MWh. The battery storage projects which will cost £750 million in total are being constructed at Blackhillock, Kilmarnock South, and Eccles. The Blackhillock project is 300 MW / 600 MWh, with Phase 1 due to go live in H1 2024, Kilmarnock South is 300 MW / 600 MWh, with Phase 1 due to go live in H2 2024, and Eccles is 400 MW / 800 MWh and due to go live in H1 2026.
Construction will take between seven and twelve months and the batteries on the site will be charged from the main grid via Eskom’s Elandskop substation. The facility will have a capacity of 8 MW, equivalent to 32 MWh of distributed electricity, enough to power a town such as Howick for four hours. Among the notable benefits of the BESS is that it will boost the network during peak hours, thereby reducing the strain on the network during peak hours.
Elandskop is part of Phase 1 of Eskom’s BESS project, which includes the installation of approximately 199 MW of additional capacity, with 833 MWh storage of distributed battery storage plants at eight Eskom Distribution substation sites throughout the country. This phase also includes about 2 MW of solar photovoltaic capacity.
Phase 2 of the project includes the installation of a further 144 MW of storage capacity, equivalent to 616 MWh, at four Eskom distribution sites and one transmission site. The solar PV capacity in this phase will be 58 MW.
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