Alberta “is a great place to do solar,” where growth of renewables is creating need to deploy energy storage for its integration to the grid.

The government of Bangladesh and potential investors into energy storage in the South Asian country were handed a European Union-funded roadmap for the technology’s development last week.

AES Corporation has added the 2GW Bellefield solar-plus-storage project to its portfolio after acquiring it from the project developer, Avantus.

Eolian has taken the amount of financing it has raised in just three years since founding to more than a billion-and-a-half-dollars.

The government of Spain is launching €160 million (US$170 million) in grants for energy storage projects, aiming to fund 600MW of projects to go online in 2026.

Global PV inverter and energy storage solutions provider Sungrow will supply equipment to eight solar microgrid projects in Lebanon.

The government of Chile will launch a bill this year to procure large-scale energy storage systems for commissioning in 2026 totalling US$2 billion of investment, on top of 5GWh already being sought for 2027-28.

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given the green light for construction to begin on a second large-scale battery storage system at Desert Sunlight.

New South Wales has approved plans to increase maximum sizing of battery storage at what could be Australia’s largest project of its type.

Dr Rahul Walawalkar, founder & president of IESA, gives us an exclusive recap from India Energy Storage Week.