RWE has switched on its Hickory Park project combining 195.5MW of solar PV with 40MW/80MWh of battery storage in Georgia, US.

Carbon-free energy deals signed by Google and a California community energy group could be a widely replicable model.

Lithium-ion battery pack manufacturer Dragonfly Energy expects revenues to increase 47% this year, during which it will complete a Nasdaq listing through a SPAC merger, before doubling in 2023.

Oil and gas major Chevron has pulled out of plans to acquire an equity interest in ACES Delta, the 300GWh green hydrogen energy storage project in Utah, it confirmed to Energy-Storage.news.

Construction has begun on a solar-plus-storage project on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts & Nevis, backed by Leclanché, Solrid and MPC Energy Solutions.

UK-based Connected Energy has raised £15 million (US$18.4 million) from five new investors to help scale up its second life-based battery energy storage system (BESS) solution.

The Inter-American Development Bank and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation are investing up to US$83.3 million in eight solar PV projects in Guyana with 34MWh of co-located energy storage.

Crossboundary Energy Access, an investment platform which is project financing solar-powered mini-grid projects in rural Africa, has secured US$50 million funding.

The government of Victoria, Australia, has opened a round of funding for ‘neighbourhood-scale’ battery storage.

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