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

Hecate Grid, an independent power producer (IPP) developing utility-scale battery storage assets, has raised US$98.9 million through lenders.

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.

This expert panel from the Energy Storage Summit 2021 brought together leading figures in the finance community to discuss the different financing and business models they’ve seen, and how they expect the market to evolve for energy storage in the UK.