The signing of the Inflation Reduction Act by US president Joe Biden has been considered a major step forward for clean energy.

A 1.8MWh flow battery has been installed and energised at the European Marine Energy Centre test site in Scotland’s Orkney Isles.

This edition of news in brief focuses on recent developments in the US distributed energy resources (DER) market.

EDF Renewables North America has fully commissioned Palen Solar, a multi-stage solar PV project on public lands in California.

US$1 billion financing has been secured for ‘Round-The-Clock’ renewables, claimed as India’s biggest single-project clean energy deal.

Clearway Energy Group has brought online the first ever utility-scale solar-plus-storage project on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu.

Sustainable infrastructure investment fund manager SUSI Partners has acquired ready-to-build battery energy storage system projects in Texas.

President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act yesterday, bringing with it measures expected to boost prospects for energy storage.

Anthony Price summarises what took place at this year’s International Flow Batteries Forum Summer Conference in Brussels, Belgium.

A real estate and infrastructure investment arm of BlackRock has committed to investing US$700 million into Akaysha Energy’s pipeline.