Danish investment firm Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has reached financial close of the La Esperanza Solar energy storage-plus-solar PV project in the state of Campeche on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

Citicore has broken ground on the country’s first embedded solar integrated renewable energy and energy storage system (IRESS) facility.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has closed a US$489.4 million loan to Amanecer Puerto Rico, a subsidiary of developer Pattern Energy to support Puerto Rico’s electric grid.

Market conditions look favourable, but some developers are finding it difficult to prove their revenue projections will hold up.

Habitat Energy has been appointed by Octopus Australia to provide optimisation services for two DC-coupled solar-plus-storage sites.

The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has classified foreign-produced power inverters and “advanced robotic devices” as national security threats.

BESS and solar have driven Australia past the halfway mark in NEM renewable penetration, but the technology mix is not yet broad enough.

Thermal energy storage (TES) technology provider Antora Energy has closed a US$550 million Series C funding round to accelerate deployment of its thermal battery storage systems for industrial facilities and data centres in the US.

Environmental services company Veolia has been selected to operate and maintain a 350MW microgrid to power an AI data centre campus in New Albany, Ohio, US, which includes a 430MWh BESS.

Infrastructure and construction company Aecon Group has executed an agreement with Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) for the 150MW/1,200MWh Simcoe energy storage project in Norfolk County, Ontario.