Residential solar and battery installer Sunrun has partnered with California utility PG&E to create a new virtual power plant (VPP) combining up to 30MW of new and existing home PV and battery systems for grid reliability.

Utility-scale solar PV developer Westbridge Renewable Energy has kicked off development of its fifth solar-plus-storage project in Alberta, Canada.

Peak Power, an Ontario-based C&I-focused energy storage and software firm, has secured a US$200 million financing agreement with Madison Energy Investments (MEI).

Utility Alliant Energy will deploy a 99MW/396MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at a coal plant which it will retire in 2025.

Our Next Energy (ONE) has raised US$300 million for its LFP cell gigafactory in Michigan while Turkish Kontrolmatik has started building its plant in South Carolina.

GE Hydro Solutions has installed the final of four 300MW turbines at a pumped hydro energy storage plant in Anhui Province, China.

Arclight Capital Partners has committed US$150 million to its energy storage platform Elevate Renewable Energy for deploying battery storage alongside its legacy thermal plant portfolio.

Austria-based utility Verbund is targeting 1GW of battery storage by 2030, it revealed in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a recent project in Bavaria, Germany.

The virtual power plant (VPP) network of residential solar and battery storage provider Sunrun in the US is being managed by Lunar Energy, a recently-formed firm in which Sunrun is a shareholder.

Lithium-ion battery recycling firm Li-Cycle saw its overall revenues fall 32% in its fourth quarter, due to two separate factors related to a fall in metals prices.