(Yicai) Dec. 6 -- Sungrow Power Supply, a Chinese maker of photovoltaic equipment, will provide a renewables arm of French electric utility giant EDF Group with liquid-cooled energy storage systems for South Africa's first wind-plus-solar virtual power plant.

Sungrow has agreed to sell its PowerTitan systems to EDF Renewables for the pioneering SA project, the Hefei-based company announced on WeChat yesterday, without disclosing any financial details of the deal.

The cloud-based distributed power plant in the African country will integrate wind and solar power, as well as energy storage. It consists of the Avondale PV facility and the Dassiesridge wind power station which are 900 kilometers apart.

The project, which is part of South Africa's Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme, can generate nearly 400 million degrees of electricity per year while meeting the demand of 120,000 households, greatly easing the country's electricity crisis, based on calculations.

EDF Renewables, one of the world’s largest providers of green energy, has cooperated with Sungrow on multiple projects worldwide, such as the 1.5-gigawatt PV project in Al Dhafra, the United Arab Emirates.

Sungrow's Shenzhen-listed shares [SHE: 300274] climbed 1.8 percent higher to close at CNY81.45 (USD11.50).

Editor: Emmi Laine