EDF Renewables has reached financial and commercial close on two virtually-coupled hybrid projects in South Africa, combining wind and solar with a combined 75MW of battery storage.

Nine projects pairing solar or wind with energy storage submitted environmental impact assessments in Chile last month.

EDF Renewables has signed a 150MW solar-plus-storage 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with utility El Paso Electric in New Mexico, US.

A 114MW battery energy storage system (BESS) being developed by EDF Renewables UK has been granted the greenlight for development.

The early numbers on the benefits of the Energy Superhub Oxford’s combination of lithium-ion and vanadium flow batteries are “encouraging”, project owner EDF Renewables told Energy-Storage.news in an interview one year one from its launch.

Wärtsilä has signed a repeat order with EDF Renewables UK to deliver a 57MW/114MWh grid-scale energy storage system in Bramford, a village in the east of England.

Vertically integrated energy storage company Kore Power will replace the batteries in a battery energy storage system (BESS) originally turned online with BYD batteries in 2015.

EDF Renewables North America has signed a 20-year PPA with SCPPA for its 117MW solar PV project in Riverside County.

Renewable developer Scatec and energy group EDF have signed a binding agreement with the government of Malawi to develop a hydropower plant with 309MW/7,000MWh of pumped hydro energy storage.

EDF Renewables North America has fully commissioned Palen Solar, a multi-stage solar PV project on public lands in California.