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grapple with how to recover their economies counterparts. The UK and Germany will Senegal.
more sustainably than in the past with upside continue to dominate the FTM market out to The study, which will take approximately
for the energy storage industry.” 2025. Frequency response auctions remain 10 months, will provide the technical,
The US maintains its pole position and one of the key revenue streams. France and economic, legal, and environmental analysis
will make up over 49% or 365 GWh of global Italy are also opening up with both capacity necessary to implement and operate the
cumulative capacity by 2030. Utility resource and ancillary service markets open or battery storage system.
planning in the US is set to take a front seat opening. Spain, and the rest of continental If the system then goes ahead, it will help
for deployments over the coming decade. Europe is expected to follow, with potential manage variable renewable energy generation
In the past two years, utility approaches to help from the European Commission and its in Senegal, paving the way for further wind
renewables and particularly storage have green recovery deal. and solar projects in the country.
shifted seismically, with majority of utilities WOOD MCKENZIE Lekela chief executive Chris Antonopoulos
dramatically shifting planned resources said: “If successful, this project has the
towards renewables and storage due to cost potential to catapult Senegal to the forefront
and state-driven clean-energy goals. BATTERY STORAGE of renewable energy usage in modern day
China, coming in second after the US, is grids.
also expected to see its cumulative storage Lekela scopes out Senegal “Wind power has been deployed for
capacity grow exponentially. It will account decades in some countries, yet only months
for 21% or 153 GWh of global cumulative grid battery after turning on Senegal’s first ever wind farm,
capacity by the end of the decade. Ancillary we are now investigating how to integrate
service market is the primary revenue stream African renewables developer Lekela has battery storage to the site.
for the FTM market and continues to attract been awarded a grant from the US Trade “This is the logical next step to utilise wind
hybrid storage installations in China from and Development Agency (USTDA) to fund and solar and bring clean, cheap power to
2020 to 2025. Firming renewables capacity a feasibility study in for Senegal’s first grid Senegal’s citizens.
to reduce curtailments is the second most battery. “We’re delighted that the USTDA has
important driver in Australia, China, South The battery will be located at Lekela’s awarded a grant to Lekela to advance this
Korea and Japan. China launched a policy that 158.7MW Taiba N Diaye wind farm, which is project in partnership with Senelec, which will
requires solar and wind developers to make the first utility-scale wind farm in Senegal and be one of the largest battery IPPs in Africa.”
up the costs for building stable and grid- is due online by the end of this year.
friendly renewable generation assets. The study, in partnership with Senelec,
Energy arbitrage make up additional will focus on how to provide increased grid
revenues for storage as more Asia Pacific stability and integrate intermittent renewable
power markets may be fully liberalised from energy into Senelec’s electricity grid.
2025 to 2030. The project is expected to be one of the
Europe’s growth story, on the other hand, first stand-alone battery storage projects built
is expected to be slower than its global on an independent power producer basis in

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