The Umoyilanga hybrid renewable energy project, developed by EDF Power Solutions, has reached the provisional commercial operations date for its Dassiesridge facility in the Eastern Cape, enabling the project to begin delivering firm capacity to the national grid under a power purchase agreement with the National Transmission Company South Africa.
The milestone was achieved on December 5 and marks the first operational phase of the project, which was procured under the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme.
Umoyilanga is configured to operate as a virtual power plant combining wind, solar PV and battery storage across two geographically separated sites, EDF says. Under the power purchase agreement, the hybrid system is designed to provide up to 75 MW of dispatchable capacity between 05:00 and 21:30 using coordinated dispatch supported by battery storage.
