A UK company has received funding to explore potential sites in India for demonstration of its proprietary gravity energy storage technology.

ACWA Power and Indonesian state power company will investigate energy storage and green hydrogen projects in the Southeast Asian country.

A 50MW solar PV plant in Togo will be expanded to 70MW capacity, while grid-scale battery storage will also be added at the site.

New company deploying off-grid renewable energy solutions in Benin will carry out €8.5 million of electrification projects within a year.

The US and the European Union have made a fresh pledge to support green energy in Africa.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended inauguration for energy network enabling entire town to source its electricity from solar PV.

The government of Western Australia has begun a drive to deploy at least 1,000 renewable energy off-grid power systems.

Crossboundary Energy Access, an investment platform which is project financing solar-powered mini-grid projects in rural Africa, has secured US$50 million funding.

Gujarat will sign power purchase agreements for renewables paired with energy storage to bring electricity to off-grid villages.

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