Matrix Renewables, the platform backed by private equity firm TPG, has secured tax equity financing of US$92 million for two solar-plus-storage projects in California with 80MWh of energy storage.

Carbon-free energy deals signed by Google and a California community energy group could be a widely replicable model.

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.

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.

Investor-owned utility SDG&E is turning its first lithium iron phosphate-based battery energy storage system (BESS) online today, while Stanford university says it has hit 100% renewable electricity with the offtake from Goldman Sachs’ recently-commissioned Slate solar-plus-storage project.

Goldman Sachs Renewable Power has cut the ribbon on a large-scale solar-plus-storage project in Kings County, California.

D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments has signed a solar and battery energy storage system PPA totalling 200MWac/400MWh with a local utility.

A group representing community energy suppliers in California has made its second long-duration energy storage procurement.

Convergent Energy + Power has celebrated the successful commissioning and start of commercial operations at two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects with a combined capacity of 60MWh in California, US.