France-based independent power producer (IPP) Qair Energy will deploy 60MWac of solar-plus-storage projects on the island nation of Mauritius after it won a state tender.

A 60MWh battery energy storage project co-located with an existing solar PV plant has been proposed in Spain, the latest to qualify for a recently-announced €150 million package of grants.

Developers Fotowatio Renewable Ventures and oEnergy have moved forward with environmental impact assessments (EIA) for two PV co-located battery storage projects in Chile, one of which is an eight-hour lithium-ion system.

Berkshire Hathaway-owned NV Energy has been revealed as the ‘large western utility’ that has ordered a 220MW/440MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) from Energy Vault.

Clearway Energy Group has brought online the first ever utility-scale solar-plus-storage project on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu.

Chilean utility Colbún has submitted plans for a solar-plus-storage project with a 1.2GWh battery energy storage system (BESS)

The electricity board of the Indian state of Gujarat is tendering for 500MW/1,000MWh of standalone battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Energy technology company Wärtsilä is supplying 500MW/2,000MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to PV projects operated by Clearway Energy Group in Hawaii and California, US.

Energy conversion equipment specialist Ingeteam has supplied a battery energy storage system (BESS) for the Puertollano facility in Spain, the world’s largest operational green hydrogen plant.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved 497MW of energy storage procured by utility Southern California Edison (SCE) to come online from August 2023 through June 2024.