The US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has progressed nine hybrid solar and storage facilities located across the states of Nevada and Arizona.

The US Bureau of Land Management has advanced on 15 clean energy projects, with two solar PV and storage plants operational in California.

A 230MW battery energy storage system (BESS) from NextEra Energy Resources, part of a large solar-plus-storage project, has come online in California.

“The industry has to continue to be aggressive,” says Luigi Resta, president of US renewable energy and energy storage developer rPlus Energies, on the US remaining a competitive market for energy storage.

California CCA SDCP has amended the terms of two power purchase agreements relating to the two largest solar-plus-storage projects in its portfolio.

A PPA between EDF Renewables North America and Southern California Public Power Authority has been terminated after a final cost audit.

Developer-operator TransGrid Energy has successfully secured over US$1.4 billion in financing for two battery energy storage (BESS) projects located in Arizona, US, with a combined capacity of 450MW/1,800MWh.

EDF Renewables North America has begun operations on a 375MW/600MWh solar-plus-storage project in California, US.

Ty Daul, CEO of Primergy, discusses how the Quinbrook-launched developer brought online the US’s largest co-located solar-plus-storage power plant.