Georgetown, the capital of Guyana. Image: Amanderson2 / Flickr.
Guyana, a country on South America’s north coast, has issued an invitation for bids for energy storage projects with a combined capacity of 34MWh.
The Guyana Utility Scale Solar Photovoltaic Program (GUYSOL) is now seeking bids for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the eight solar PV projects and 34MWh of associated energy storage. Bids must be submitted by March 7, 2023.
It comes six months after the country received US$83 million in financing from Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, as reported by Energy-Storage.news at the time.
The eight ground-mounted solar PV plants will total 33MWp while the battery energy storage systems (BESS) will amount to 34MWh of capacity. It is not yet clear how many BESS units are…