Canadian Solar and Axium Infrastructure have begun operation of the Crimson Energy Storage large-scale battery system in California.

NextEra’s Energy’s 485MW solar PV co-located plant has reached full commercial operation in Riverside County, California.

Revolve Renewable Power received approval to build 250MW project on land managed by the US Bureau of Land Management in Arizona.

Canadian Solar’s project development subsidiary Recurrent Energy has sold a majority stake in its 350MW / 1,400MWh Crimson energy storage project currently awaiting the start of construction in California. 

Clean Power Alliance, a community energy provider in California, has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Renewables for a large-scale solar-plus-storage project’s output. 

Eagle Mountain is a large-scale pumped hydro energy storage project under development in California. It’s a win-win project, argues Jeff Harvey, a consultant with over 35 years experience in California and senior environmental scientist for developer NextEra Energy Resources.

The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has given the green light to the construction of a utility-scale solar-plus-storage project on public land in California.

This week’s news in brief focuses on the Golden State – California.

Communities most likely to be affected by both the effects of and the response to devastating wildfires which have wreaked havoc on California will be given extra incentive to install solar-plus-storage at their properties.