Ormat Technologies has signed a PPA for a California solar-plus-storage plant, shortly after announcing the start of commercial operations at two standalone battery projects.

London-based investor NextEnergy Capital has closed a US$480 million tranche of investment in its NextPower V ESG (NPV ESG) fund, which is targeting solar and battery storage.

Ontario and Alberta account for the bulk of Canada’s installed, planned and proposed large-scale energy storage today. The rest of the country can lean on the experiences and lessons learned, Andy Colthorpe hears from developers and expert voices.

Metals group BASF has begun commissioning on what it claimed is the first combined battery cathode materials production and recycling plant, in Germany.

Vietnam’s VinES Energy Solutions has partnered with SolarBK to promote the integration of battery storage with rooftop solar PV.

Leyline Renewable Capital has provided loans to developers RAI Energy and Grid Connected Infrastructure (GCI) for solar and storage projects.

We caught up with Cling Systems, a B2B trading platform for end-of-life lithium-ion batteries which has seen 400MWh of volumes in aggregate for second life energy storage to-date.

Finance institutions GMO and PIDG will finance a first battery storage project in Senegal dedicated to frequency regulation, the first in the region, project developer Africa REN claimed.

Energy storage can enable decarbonisation of economies around the world and Asia-Pacific is no exception. Hendrik Bohne of Aquila Capital looks at the examples of two leading examples in the region.

Premier of Queensland visited electrolyte factory, and the company building it has ordered a vanadium flow battery from Sumitomo Electric.