Renalfa IPP and Eurowind have brought a large-scale hybrid renewables project, featuring 242MWp of solar PV and 773MWh of battery storage, into commercial operation in Bulgaria.

Gamuda Australia and Yanara have signed the EPC contract for Stage 1 of the Mortlake Energy Hub (MEH-1) in western Victoria.

Zelestra and steelmaker Salzgitter Flachstahl have signed a PPA for a new solar-plus-storage portfolio in Germany.

The New South Wales government in Australia is investing AU$3 million (US$2.1 million) to scope new solar-plus-storage-powered microgrid projects across four remote communities in the state’s Far West.

Trina Storage has been selected to supply the BESS for Stage One of Frontier Energy’s Waroona Renewable Energy Project.

Aukera has closed a €460 million (US$534.23 million) structured credit facility to advance its project pipeline in five European markets.

EPC Renewables has signed an MoU with state-linked utility Energy Fiji Limited for the development of the Yaqara Solar & Battery Project.

A roundup of large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects being financed, acquired or contracted in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Romania. 

Solar-plus-storage project, claimed as the first of its kind in Africa to deliver 24/7 renewable electricity, has come online at a copper mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

US independent power producers (IPPs) Swift Current Energy and Avantus have secured financing for their pipelines and projects, respectively.