The Planning and Development Services Department at California’s Imperial County has prepared initial environmental assessment documents for a 800MW hybrid solar and BESS facility proposed by developer RAI Energy.
System integrator Alfen will provide a BESS for co-location with a wind farm in Sweden while aluminium company Hydro has inaugurated a solar and BESS project at one of its extrusion facilities.
Startup Photon Vault Inc proposal in response to a request for information (RFI) from Microsoft, Google and Nucor, while unsuccessful, offered what it claimed could be a first for California.
Developer Oracle Power and China Electric Power Equipment and Technology (CET) are looking to develop and build a 1.3GW project combining solar, wind and battery energy storage system (BESS) technology in Pakistan.
Developer Someva Renewables and utility AGL have proposed a project in New South Wales combining wind, solar and up to 500MW/2,000MWh of energy storage.