India’s Reliance Industries has completed the takeover of sodium-ion battery company Faradion, while Amazon is set to trial a novel flow battery technology.

Google, Microsoft, and Nucor Corporation have issued a request for information (RFI) for innovative clean electricity technologies.

Atlas Renewable Energy has signed a PPA with state-owned mining company Codelco to deliver 375GWh a year from a solar-plus-storage project in Chile.

Meta has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with US utility Salt River Project (SRP) and Danish energy company Ørsted in Arizona.

National Grid Renewables has commenced operations at its Noble solar-plus-storage project in Denton County, Texas.

National Grid Renewables has signed a 140MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with chocolate makers The Hershey Company.

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

Amazon has signed cross-portfolio power purchase agreement (PPA) deals with AES Corporation for California clean energy resources.

Amazon has added 37 new renewable energy projects to its portfolio, including two solar-plus-storage plants. 

Google is investing in battery energy storage to serve as a backup power solution at one of its data centres, in a project described as a first step in changing data centres “from climate change problems to critical components in carbon-free systems”.