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).
Developer Boralex and its partner Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation (SNGRDC) have closed the CA$538 (US$372.82) million financing of a 300MW/1,200MWh BESS park.
We hear from US distributed and C&I solar and storage developer-operator Convergent Energy and Power about its financing, its pipeline and strategy, as it and Scale Microgrids both announce US$150 million multi-project bank financing deals.
Eolian has pulled plans for a 100MW/400MWh standalone BESS facility that was proposed for the Town of Catskill in Greene County, New York, following a drawn-out permitting process with the local planning authority.
