Energy Vault’s Eskom Gravity Storage Deal Puts South Africa’s Coal Pivot on the Clock

Energy Vault & Eskom Sign Deal For Gravity Energy Storage In South Africa

New York Stock Exchange-listed Energy Vault Holdings, a global leader in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage and AI compute infrastructure solutions, today announced a Strategic Development Agreement with Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned electricity utility, to deploy a long-duration gravity energy storage system (GESS). The first GESS plant will be built at Eskom’s Hendrina Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, one of the utility’s old…

Energy Vault’s Eskom Gravity Storage Deal Puts South Africa’s Coal Pivot on the Clock

Energy Vault and Eskom signed a deal to build a 25-MW, 100-MWh gravity energy storage system at Hendrina Power Station in Mpumalanga. The project will use Energy Vault’s EVx 2.0 technology and could scale up to 4 GW at the site. The partners plan to co-develop up to 4 GWh of storage across Southern Africa by 2035. Coal supplied 83% of South Africa’s electricity in 2024, according to official data. The post Energy Vault’s Eskom Gravity Storage De…