Around 60% of new solar projects planned in US utility service areas are hybrid resources paired with storage. Recurrent Energy’s Lucas Moller explains the appeal.

Actions taken this month by the US government to support solar industry unlikely to come at the expense of support for energy storage.

New York has awarded 22 solar PV projects totalling 2.4GW of power, including six co-located sites with a combined 159MW of battery energy storage systems (BESS).

US development bank NADBank is providing a US$65.7 million loan for a co-located solar project with an 80MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Texas.

A front-of-meter microgrid combining 2.2MW of solar PV with a 9MWh battery has gone online in Humboldt County, northeast California, which its developers claim is the first of its kind.

Californian investor-owned utility (IOU) PG&E has revealed its energy storage plans in a Climate Strategy Report and cut the ribbon on the 182.5MW Elkhorn battery energy storage system (BESS).

Ion Storage Systems (ION), a company that has developed a solid state lithium-ion battery technology, has raised a US$30 million Series A to expand its production facility and accelerate its entry into the stationary storage sector.

Community solar owner-operator Summit Ridge has secured US$15 million in project financing for two battery energy storage system projects in New York City, US.

Sonoma Clean Power has signed a power purchase agreement with financing company Luminia for a co-located project with 32MWh of energy storage.

Companies building battery energy storage facilities at former coal power plant sites in Illinois will get US$280.5 million in grants.