500 MWh battery storage system

TOTALENERGIES HYDRA STROAGE

Reatile Renewables, as a 30% equity holder with TotalEnergies reached financial close on 14 December 2023 on the Hydra project comprising a 216 MW solar plant and a 500 MWh battery storage system to manage the intermittency of solar production. Located in the Northern Cape province, the site will supply dispatchable renewable electricity to the South African national grid for twenty years, equivalent to over 400 GWh per year. Under the terms of a Power Purchase Agreement signed in November, and thanks to the storage system, the project will supply 75 MW of dispatchable power to the national utility Eskom on a continuous basis from 5 a.m. to 9.30 p.m., i.e., for longer than the available sunshine.