The literature review and case studies revealed that a policy environment that recognises and signals the strategic value of energy storage can direct and enable development and investment in the sector. South Africa’s policy environment, represented by the IRP 2019, recognises ESS but only as a generation asset.
The report noted the main barriers in the region to be lack of regulation supporting the energy storage market, access to affordable financing, political and economic stability, and underdeveloped or aging grid infrastructure. Of particular interest in South Africa is the volume of residential energy storage systems being imported.
Identification of priority energy storage use cases and applications for the South African context to inform development of the corresponding regulatory framework. Amendment of the grid code to be technology agnostic and review the complete set of codes for optimal integration of ESS at all levels.
South Africa’s energy storage development and manufacturing objectives and roadmap. Anticipated changes in the generation and consumption profiles of the country with consideration of the most recent IRP (Intervention 1.2 under Policy levers) and any subsequent techno-economic planning and modelling.
This enables storage to absorb excess capacity on the system when supply exceeds demand. In South Africa’s constrained power system, energy storage can provide backup capacity that can be called on to reduce the extent of loadshedding. As noted earlier, energy storage offers accurate and swift / responsive dispatchability to the system.
In the longer term, however, at higher levels of variable generation, flexibility requirements will significantly increase demanding interventions to ensure secure and cost-efficient operation of the South African power system. Energy storage was specifically noted to be highly suitable for this purpose.
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