NextEra Energy Resources and Meta have signed 11 power purchase agreements and two energy storage agreements totalling 2.5GW.

Clearway Energy Group has negotiated tolling agreements with SDG&E for one of its solar and storage complexes in Kern County, California.

NHOA Energy has secured contracts from Engie for an 80MW/320MWh BESS at Engie’s Drogenbos power station, near Brussels, Belgium.

AFC and public-private-partnership (PPP) Cabeolica have inaugurated 13.5MW of wind power generation and 26MWh of battery storage in Cape Verde.

In this Energy-Storage.news roundup, Energy Vault enters the Swiss energy storage market, ZincFive raises Series F financing, and Convergent Energy and Power secures a multimillion-dollar facility provided by NY Green Bank.

The 600MW/1.6GWh Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub has commenced commercial operations in Victoria, Australia.

European energy independence is achievable if long-duration energy storage is factored into the mix, writes Oonagh O’Grady of Hydrostor.

Vena Energy has signed a battery storage supply agreement with CATL for a project which would export renewable energy from Indonesia to Singapore.

A Western Australian government initiative to deploy the largest vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) project outside China is a “pivotal moment,” one technology provider has said.

Supervisors in Maricopa County, Arizona, have approved a 100MW/400MWh battery storage project from National Renewable Solutions (NRS).