All would be located at substations owned by Eskom, and each bid offered between 122MW and 124MW of capacity. Most bidders – full table below – were registered under holding names which don’t elucidate the ultimate developer or independent power producer (IPP) behind them, with the exception of bids from IPP Globeleq and oil and gas major TotalEnergies, which also has an IPP arm.
Globeleq made on project bid (as far as the information in the table shows) while TotalEnergies made four.
Window three of the BESIPPPP scheme aims to secure 615MW/2,460MWh of BESS capacity, as does window two, the winning bidders of which should be announced soon.
Window one secured 513MW/2,052MWh of capacity, won by IPPs Scatec, Globeleq and a consortium led by France-headquartered utility and IPP EDF, which last week secured financial close on its trio of projects that won contracts.
The EDF consortium’s BESIPPPP 1 projects all have Oasis in the name, and two bids for window three did too, though information about the project’s holding companies did not elucidate the ultimate parent company.
