The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) has announced a conditional commitment for a loan of up to US$15 billion to California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E).
A flurry of grid-scale energy storage news from Europe, with large-scale projects progressed in Kosovo, Switzerland and Croatia involving Millenium Challenge Corporation, Intilion and NGEN respectively.
Sembcorp has successfully bid into a Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) tender to build a large-scale solar PV project paired with battery storage.
Lightsource bp has selected Hithium as the supplier of battery storage technology for a 222MW/640MWh solar co-located project in Queensland, Australia.
French independent power producer (IPP) Neoen has secured AU$1.4 billion (US$890 million) in capital to help fund energy storage and solar PV projects in Australia.
Western Australia’s Altech Batteries has inked an offtake agreement to supply the Western defence market with its CERENERGY battery energy storage system (BESS) technology.
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced a conditional commitment for a loan of up to US$2.5 billion to Wisconsin Electric Power Company (WEPCO).