Solar and energy storage were described by Elon Musk as going together “like peanut butter and jelly”. Andy Colthorpe meets some of the players creating this winning combination in the US.

A lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) made by Saft will be installed at a 37.5MWp solar PV power plant in Côte d’Ivoire.

Tesla looks set to supply its Power Pack battery energy storage system (BESS) to sister company SpaceX’s Starbase launch facility in Texas, which is expanding on-site storage by up to 8MWh.

Energy storage solutions provider Convergent Energy + Power has brought three more solar-plus-storage projects totalling 8MWh of energy capacity online in the US state of Maryland.

A solar-plus-storage power plant, deployed at the site of an opencast lignite mine in Germany, is almost ready to go into action.

Debt and equity financing worth US$1.9 billion has been closed for one of the US’ largest solar-plus-storage power plants to date.

Amazon has added 37 new renewable energy projects to its portfolio, including two solar-plus-storage plants. 

There was almost 1TW of renewable energy capacity and an estimated 427GW of storage active in US interconnection queues at the end of 2021.

Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission has approved Invenergy 300MW solar farm, to be paired with a 165MW battery energy storage system.

Group co-owned by State Grid Corporation of China and Singapore Power has halted investment into a hybrid project in South Australia.