A solar-plus-storage project combining 300kW of PV and a 2MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) has been installed in the Polynesian archipelago nation of Tonga.

Approval granted in Australia for the first battery storage project to share grid connection point with an existing generation asset in National Electricity Market.

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

Grid operators in the Netherlands are trialling the potential of large battery storage to relieve bottlenecks in the grid.

Energy technology company Wärtsilä is supplying 500MW/2,000MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to PV projects operated by Clearway Energy Group in Hawaii and California, US.

A solar and storage project totalling 20MW has entered commercial operation in Malawi, which the companies involved say is the first grid-connected utility-scale co-located project to do so in sub-Saharan Africa.

Energy solutions integrator Alfen is building a 12MW battery energy storage system (BESS) with black start functionality for co-location with a wind farm in Finland.

Renewable energy developer Kearsarge Energy expects a 20-50% revenue uplift for a solar-plus-storage project in the New England ISO market by using Customized Energy Solutions’ optimisation platform.

London-listed solar and storage investor Bluefield Solar Income Fund has acquired two 40MW battery energy storage system (BESS) projects for £4.5 million (US$5.7 million).