Progress is being made at one of Australia’s biggest co-located solar and energy storage projects.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved 497MW of energy storage procured by utility Southern California Edison (SCE) to come online from August 2023 through June 2024.

News from around the world in energy storage.

Sungrow will supply battery storage equipment to Tata Power Solar for a project in Ladakh, India.

US utility Vistra has brought a 260MW/260MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) online in Texas, the largest in the state.

The German utility-scale storage revenue stack for new projects has been totally reshaped by recent events and regulatory changes as the market moves to 100MW-plus ticket sizes, local developer ECO STOR told Energy-Storage.news.

London-listed solar and storage investor Bluefield Solar Income Fund has acquired two 40MW battery energy storage system (BESS) projects for £4.5 million (US$5.7 million).

Solar and energy storage were described by Elon Musk as going together “like peanut butter and jelly”. Andy Colthorpe meets some of the players creating this winning combination in the US.

French renewable power producer and developer Akuo Energy has commissioned a 29.2MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Tonga, several weeks after powering up a 19MWh project in Martinique.

Trina Storage has formed a partnership with solar inverter manufacturer Power Electronics to jointly deploy battery storage.