Azelio, Jet Energy to store 45 MWh of electricity until 2025

Swedish company, Azelio and Jet Energy, a Moroccan company specializing in the construction, operation and maintenance of photovoltaic solar power plants have inked a deal which will see installation of Azelio’s storage systems in Morocco and several other French-speaking African countries that will help to store nearly 45 MWh of electricity until 2025.

Jonas Eklind, Azelio’s CEO made the announcement and said that the agreement aims to provide continuous supply of electricity to the population.

“We are delighted to be working with Jet Energy in their efforts to provide customers with reliable and affordable renewable energy production around the clock. The first project is targeting 50 kW in 2021, followed by larger scale project installations with a planned total of 5 MW in 2022, 10 MW in 2023, 15 MW in 2024 and 15 MW in 2025,” said Jonas Eklind.

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Recycled aluminum

The storage systems that will be installed in French-speaking African countries use recycled aluminum as the storage medium. This means that the system is free of rare minerals and will not suffer from a reduction in storage capacity over time.

This partnership comes about 8 months after the inauguration of Azelio’s first thermodynamic solar energy storage system in Morocco. The installation is located in the solar complex of Noor Ouarzazate. It should be commissioned before the end of 2020, after the storage checks carried out by the Swedish company.

The installed system will allow Noor’s Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plant to provide electricity 24 hours a day. A phase change material (PCM) is heated up to 600°C and liquefied in a container. During discharge, heat is transferred from the PCM to the Stirling engine via a heat transfer fluid (HTF). A gas is then heated and cooled by the surrounding air, and thus drives the engine.