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Since August 12, Africa’s largest copper mine has been running on solar baseload, with, in its first month of operation, the plant displacing around 4 million litres of diesel, worth roughly $11 million.
This is the assessment DHYBRID Power Systems GmbH came to. DYHBRID engineered the battery system and provides the control platform, the Universal Power Platform (UPP), for the facility that CrossBoundary Energy developed, owns and operates at the Kamoa-Kakula copper complex near Kolwezi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This system is made up of 233 MWp of solar and a 123 MVA/526 MWh battery system delivering a guaranteed 30 MW output around the clock, with peaks of 55 MW, 16 months after the power purchase agreement was signed.
The UPP is the central control layer for the entire plant: 513 photovoltaic inverters, 90 battery inverters, 180 battery containers, more than 200 power quality metres, protection relays, meteorological sensors, UPS and HVAC units, and more than 400 managed network switches, over 1,300 devices in total.
The mine does not buy fluctuating solar power; it buys reliable and predictable baseload power, DHYBRID says.
Kamoa Copper S.A. set the requirement at 30 MW, available at any hour of any day with 95% availability. The UPP’s Baseload Application turns that requirement into a plant-wide setpoint. A forecasting algorithm shows the operator 24 hours ahead how much the plant can deliver; the operator sets the value, and the platform decides every second how to split up to 180 MW of solar between the mine and the batteries, how far to charge for the night, and how to hold the setpoint through cloud cover and load swings. The customer only sees constant power output.
Tobias Reiner, CTO and Managing Director of DHYBRID, said: “For the operator, the power output of the plant is controlled by one button: ask for 30 MW and you get 30 MW, ask for 50 MW and you get 50 MW of stable output. Our forecasting algorithm tells the operator 24 hours ahead what the plant can deliver and the UPP holds that setpoint by coordinating more than 1,300 devices in real time to make sure intermittent solar power becomes renewable, reliable baseload.”
The facility combines 357,048 Aiko solar modules, Sungrow photovoltaic inverters and medium-voltage stations, Risen SYL battery containers and EPC power power conversion systems. DHYBRID’s platform is manufacturer-independent by design, which let CrossBoundary Energy choose each component on its merits and still operate the result as a single power plant. The same platform runs DHYBRID systems at more than 100 sites in around 30 countries.
DHYBRID customised the 180 battery containers for the project’s logistics, including road-weight limits on the 3,080 km route from Durban port to Kolwezi. Each unit was factory-tested by DHYBRID in China before shipping and commissioned on site by DHYBRID engineers.
The plant exported its first electricity in June 2026, 13 months after site access, and reached commercial operation on August 12. CrossBoundary Energy expects the facility to produce around 300,000 MWh a year and avoid roughly 78,750 t of CO₂ annually.
DHYBRID has been awarded the contract to expand the Kamoa-Kakula battery system by a further 35 MWh to an installed capacity of 561 MWh, with commercial operation targeted for January 2027. The additional capacity will be integrated seamlessly into the existing control layer without changes to the plant’s operating interface. Kamoa-Kakula plans to further raise its on-site solar baseload capacity to 120 MW within 18 months.
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