Praia, Sept. 6, 2024 (Lusa) — Cabo Verde's first pumped storage hydroelectric power station will start operating by 2028. Its power output is equivalent to more than a quarter of the largest (fuel-fired) power station on the island of Santiago.
[pdf] MPower, a subsidiary of Australian power sector investor Tag Pacific Ltd (ASX:TAG), has won a contract to design and install a 5.6-MWh battery energy storage system in Rarotonga, the capital of the Cook Islands.
[pdf] The new plant will have a capacity of 180 MW of solar panels and a 112 MW battery storage system, the largest in Latin America. Located 230 kilometers east of Antofagasta, in the middle of the Atacama Desert, Andes IIB features a state-of-the-art renewable energy technology.
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