Two major Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region projects combining solar PV and battery storage have progressed in Saudi Arabia and Egypt through ACWA Power and Scatec, respectively.

ABB has acquired the solar PV and wind inverter and battery storage power conversion system (PCS) businesses of Gamesa Electric.

The World Bank will invest in a huge 4GW, 5.12GWh solar-plus-storage complex in Malaysia, part of a pan-Southeast Asian power grid initiative.

The Emirati state-owned renewables developer Masdar has begun construction on a giant solar-plus-storage project in Abu Dhabi.

Germany has awarded contracts to 490MW of solar-plus-storage projects in its latest “innovation” auction for co-located renewables.

Spanish energy firm Zelestra and Portuguese utility EDP have signed what they call the “first” solar-plus-storage power purchase agreement (PPA) in the Spanish renewables market.

Hopewind spoke with us at Intersolar Europe about distributed energy storage and PV offerings and the state of the market.

On the first morning of the Energy Storage Summit, an expert panel faced pressing questions from Europe’s energy storage professionals.

EDF Renewables North America has begun operations on a 375MW/600MWh solar-plus-storage project in California, US.

Following his inauguration on Monday morning, US president Donald Trump signed a raft of executive orders outlining his administration’s plans for the next four years.