This edition of news in brief comes from another busy week for our colleagues covering the UK energy transition.

Pattern Energy has achieved financial close on an offshore wind project in northern Japan to include a 100MW battery energy storage system.

Canadian Solar was behind a successful bid in Chile’s July auction with 253MWp of solar PV and 1GWh battery energy storage.

Powin Energy has entered a partnership with developer Akaysha Energy to deploy battery storage systems in Australia.

Key Capture Energy is approaching the final stages of construction of a battery storage system in New York that will inform how the developer approaches much bigger projects in the state.

Sustainable infrastructure investment fund manager SUSI Partners has acquired ready-to-build battery energy storage system projects in Texas.

A real estate and infrastructure investment arm of BlackRock has committed to investing US$700 million into Akaysha Energy’s pipeline.

Genex Power has bought up a 2GW clean energy project which it intends to build in five stages in Queensland, Australia.

Wirsol Energy has received development approval for its Maryvale solar and energy storage project in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

Longroad Energy has secured US$500 million investment to support business model shift from “develop to sale” to ownership of renewables.