IPP Enlight Renewable Energy has secured a US$1.44 billion debt financing for the Snowflake A solar-plus-storage project in Holbrook, Arizona, US.

Japan’s NGK Insulators has discontinued its sodium-sulfur (NAS) battery product line, with the exit of its partner, BASF, thought to have led to the final decision.

Australia’s Waratah Super Battery has been hit with a “catastrophic” failure at one of its transformers, reducing the project’s capacity.

A roundup of battery energy storage system (BESS) stories from the US including Fullmark Energy’s 130MWh BESS reaching commercial operations, Habitat optimising a 500MWh BESS for Ørsted, and Quino Energy securing US$10 million in Series A funding.

HDRE and Zen Energy have executed a 20-year power purchase agreement for the 111MW/330MWh Templers Battery Project in South Australia.

Australia’s AGL Energy has agreed to divest 19.9% of its equity interest in Tilt Renewables to Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) and a Future Fund-led consortium for AU$750 million (US$488 million).

Developer-operator Plus Power has secured US$160 million in tax equity investments from Morgan Stanley for two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Massachusetts and Maine, US.

The low-carbon subsidiary of German energy company LEAG is constructing Europe’s largest single-site battery storage project, in partnership with Fluence.

UK BESS projects totalling nearly 4GWh awarded planning consent in October, there is now nearly 22GWh under construction.

BESS platform Eco Stor has marked the start of construction on a 300MW/700MWh BESS project in Germany, just days after RWE did the same.