The World Bank has provided guarantees for US$24 million of equity and shareholder loan investments into a 20MW solar-plus-storage project in Malawi.

E.ON spinout Uniper Energy Storage has received €2.75 million in EU grant funding towards a project to store hydrogen at scale in a salt cavern in Northern Germany.

Battery storage deployments on the California ISO (CAISO) grid slowed in the lead-up to the peak summer season, with no new battery energy storage connected in May and only 65MW added in June.

Enel Green Power has completed a wind-plus-storage facility while RWE just installed all inverters on its own, both in Texas.

State-owned power company PGE Group has obtained regulatory approval to build a 200MW/820MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland.

After falling by more than two-thirds in quarter one 2022, energy storage order intake increased 19% in quarter two for marine and energy solutions company Wärtsilä.

Blackstone portfolio company Aypa Power has closed an US$88 million construction and term loan facility for Wolf Tank, a 173MWh standalone energy storage project in Texas.

Renewable energy power producers Scatec has started building three co-located solar projects with 1.1 GW hours of energy storage in South Africa, after achieving financial close.

Andy Tang, VP of energy storage & optimisation for global energy technology group Wärtsilä, discusses software, supply chain, non-lithium storage technologies and more in this exclusive interview.

Spanish utility Iberdrola has inaugurated its ‘Tâmega Gigabattery’ in northern Portugal, a renewable energy complex including pumped hydro with an energy storage capacity of 40GWh.