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.

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.

IPPs BrightNight and Cordelio Power have reached financial close on the 300MWac solar PV, 300MW/1,200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) Pioneer Clean Energy Centre in Yuma, Arizona, US.

The government of Spain has chosen the 143 energy storage projects that will receive capex support from an EU-backed scheme, totalling nearly 9GWh of capacity.

As China enters Q4 2025, the capacity utilisation rate of the country’s energy storage battery manufacturing capacity will remain high, a trade body said.

US utility Xcel Energy plans to build the Midwest’s largest battery energy system (BESS) facility at the Sherco Energy Hub in central Minnesota, US.

LG Energy Solution and Stellantis’ joint venture (JV), NextStar Energy, Canada’s first large-scale lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery manufacturing plant, is expanding to produce energy storage system (ESS) batteries.

Utility Osaka Gas and developer Sonnedix are installing what is claimed to be the largest battery storage facility co-located with renewable energy generation in Japan so far.

ESN Premium speaks with Neha Sinha of Wärtsilä Energy Storage, about DC-coupled solar-battery hybrids in Australia.

Australia’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program processes 8,000 applications per week, according to Carl Binning of the Clean Energy Regulator.