South Africa should develop national and municipal plans to deploy energy storage, to ease the electricity crisis and reduce the need for load-shedding during periods of peak power demand.published today – Watts in store: Explainer on how energy storage can help South Africa’s electricity crisis – by the International Institute for Sustainable Development , which argues SA should develop national and municipal plans to deploy energy storage.
“While deployment of batteries at commercial, industrial and residential sites is accelerating, the rollout is happening in an uncoordinated manner, primarily as a self-funded response to worsening load-shedding,” says Richard Halsey, policy advisor at IISD and lead author of the report. IISD researchers identified seven benefits of energy storage that are particularly important for the constrained South African power system this year.
In the long-term, they note, energy storage can complement intermittent utility-scale renewable energy, optimise the use of congested grids, contribute to better use of existing power plants, improve public supply of electricity, and could be a cost-effective alternative to immediate grid expansion in some cases.
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