Swedish energy storage specialist Polarium has opened a lithium-ion battery assembly plant in Montague Park, Cape Town. The facility is the group’s third in the world, with the other two plants in Mexico and Vietnam. The Cape Town plant will employ 200 people, and will supply mainly the local and rest-of- Africa telecommunications tower markets.
The City of Cape Town is set to get Africa’s first dedicated gigawatt battery storage plant in the form of a 12,500 square-metre light industrial site.
The opening of the Cape Town facility follows a multimillion-dollar bulk purchase agreement between American Tower Corporation (ATC) Africa and Polarium, signed last year. ATC has been switching steadily from diesel generators and traditional lead-acid battery storage to lithium-ion systems in Africa, explains ATC South Africa CEO Anne Mclaren.
Swedish lithium-ion battery manufacturer Polarium has started production at a 4GWh/yr battery assembly facility in Cape Town, South Africa. The plant was set up by America Tower Corporation Africa (ATC Africa), which signed a bulk purchase agreement with Polarium in 2021, having established a strategic partnership in 2017. Want to read more?
The factory will be powered by a combination of solar power and Polarium’s energy storage solutions, making it a net contributor to the South African power grid. The opening of the Cape Town facility follows a multimillion-dollar bulk purchase agreement between American Tower Corporation (ATC) Africa and Polarium, signed last year.
“Lithium-ion batteries are more sustainable and offer a longer life cycle than other solutions.” Mclaren notes that the switch has allowed ATC Africa to save on the use of 95-million litres of diesel since 2018. ATC is active in six African countries outside South Africa, and has about 22 000 tower sites on the continent.
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