Milestone reached in utility-scale battery storage market development in Japan, with Pacifico Energy trading energy from two new projects.

Renewable energy developer TagEnergy has closed a €570 million (US$622 million) green bond for its solar, wind and energy storage pipeline in the UK, Europe and Australia.

Developers Spearmint Energy, On.Energy, Nexus Renewables and Granite Source Power have collectively secured US$300 million for US battery storage projects, the bulk by Spearmint.

Significant partnerships in Germany have been struck on second life energy storage and large-scale deployments, by ABO Wind and Tricera, and Kyon Energy and Obton, respectively.

Alberta “is a great place to do solar,” where growth of renewables is creating need to deploy energy storage for its integration to the grid.

Eolian has taken the amount of financing it has raised in just three years since founding to more than a billion-and-a-half-dollars.

Renewable Power Capital has tied up with Greenfield to deploy 500MW of battery storage in the UK, shortly after a similar deal with Eelpower.

Renewable energy firm RES and battery storage developer SCR have partnered to deploy another grid-scale battery storage project in Sweden, this time totalling 17MW.

Masdar has signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with the Uzbekistan government to develop more than 2GW of solar and wind projects.

Oneida, which will mix long-term contracted revenues with merchant risk exposure in Ontario, Canada, has reached financial close.