- Lekela Power plans complete financial arrangements for the biggest battery storage facility in West Africa.
- It intends to build a 160-megawatt-hour battery plant next to its 159-megawatt Parc Eolien Taiba N’Diaye wind-powered power facility in Senegal.
Lekela Power BV, an Amsterdam-based company with the most renewable energy assets in Africa, plans complete financial arrangements for the biggest battery storage facility in West Africa soon and wants to expand into providing electricity for green hydrogen projects. It intends to build a 160-megawatt-hour battery plant next to its 159-megawatt Parc Eolien Taiba N’Diaye wind-powered power facility in Senegal.
The company currently has about 1 gigawatt of wind-power capacity in South Africa, Senegal and Egypt and is building a 150-megawatt plant in Ghana. Chris Antonopoulos, Lekela’s chief executive officer, also stated that South Africa is an attractive market for battery storage investments. Currently, in the process of being taken over by Africa Finance Corp and Egypt’s Infinity Group, Lekela is also considering partnering with green hydrogen producers in Egypt.
Lekela is seeking to quadruple its generation capacity within four years for $4 billion to $5 billion to add to the generation capacity of power-starved African countries.