By ESS news
South African independent power producer SOLA Group has reached financial close on its Naos-1 Hybrid Solar and Battery Project, touted as the country’s first solar PV and battery energy storage project purpose-built to transmit power to residential end-users across the entire grid.
The project includes a 300 MW (435 MWp) solar PV plant with 660 MWh of battery storage and is supported by 25-year power purchase agreements with Sasol and Air Liquide, two major industrial energy consumers in South Africa.
Developed, designed, implemented and operated by SOLA Group, Naos-1, located near Viljoenskroon in the Free State Province, is the largest privately contracted hybrid renewable energy project to reach financial completion in South Africa to date. Construction is underway and commercial operation is planned for the first half of 2028.
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