New Jersey’s regulator has approved the construction of battery storage facilities and a procurement for further energy storage resources in the PJM-connected US state.
Experts at the ongoing Energy Storage Summit 2026 have cautioned against treating co-located storage as a “silver bullet” to prop up commercially underperforming solar assets.
US utility Dominion Energy Virginia has outlined options for meeting future power demand, including an additional 12GW of PV and 4.5GW of battery storage.
Arizona utility Tucson Electric Power (TEP) has set out plans to provide 70% of its power from solar and wind by 2035, backed up with investment in new energy storage capacity.
Realising the theoretical promise of solar-wind-storage hybrids is far from straightforward, with individual projects likely to vary considerably. Ben Willis examines some of the technical complexities of combining different technologies into a single, profitable entity.