The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has raised questions around the availability of capital for the clean energy sector, having been a major actor in the space to-date including with Sunrun, Leap, AES, Cypress Creek and other developers.

Infradebt has made the first close of a fund dedicated to investing in large-scale battery storage projects around Australia.

Solar energy companby KarmSolar has secured US$2.4 million in bank financing for a solar-plus-storage project in Egypt.

Broad Reach Power is the latest US battery storage industry player to announce US$100 million or more in financing over the past few weeks.

Blackstone portfolio company Aypa Power has closed an US$88 million construction and term loan facility for Wolf Tank, a 173MWh standalone energy storage project in Texas.

The story behind EStor-Lux, Belgium’s biggest BESS to date.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage, this time with a distinctly UK flavour.

Experts from LCP, Apricum and law firm CMS look at the development of financing and investment in UK battery storage.

A 50MW lithium-ion battery storage system which will form part of a transmission system-connected ‘Energy Superhub’ has been commissioned in Oxford, England, while another 100MW transmission-connected project in the country has reached financial close and is set to begin construction soon.