Google has finalised its acquisition of US renewable energy developer Intersect Power, as part of its plan to power its data centre expansions in the US.

The US Treasury’s interim FEOC guidance has outlined “Material Assistance” provisions, which rely heavily on existing safe harbour calculations.

The Governors of Maryland and New Jersey have enacted legislation to accelerate the deployment of clean energy technologies in response to energy cost and supply concerns.

Amazon has been approved as the buyer of the 1.2GW Sunstone solar project in Oregon, one of the largest solar PV projects in the US.

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.