A solar-plus-storage project is being planned for the legislative capital of South Africa, as the city looks to move “away from Eskom reliance and towards a load-shedding-free Cape Town”, its Mayor said.

The Electricity Authority of Israel (PUA) has introduced a supplementary tariff for PV facilities combined with energy storage.

Turkey pre-licensing energy storage facilities paired with renewables, with around 20GW expected to be granted within three years.

Masdar has acquired a 50% stake in a 128MW/160MWh solar-plus-storage project from EDF Renewables North America.

Developer Enerparc has turned on its first solar-plus-storage project in Germany awarded under 2020/21’s Innovation Tender.

Scale Microgrids Solutions will build a renewables microgrid for a Native American tribe in California, announcing the new project a few weeks after securing a US$225 million debt facility.

Invinity and BASF have announced the first deployments of their non-lithium battery storage tech in Hungary and Australia respectively.

Duke Energy’s 11MW/11MWh battery storage project, despite modest size, is thought to be the largest project of its type in North Carolina.

The Australian market for residential battery storage grew by an estimated 55% in 2022 from the previous year, according to SunWiz.

Agilitas Energy, a developer of distributed and smaller utility-scale solar PV and battery storage projects in the US, has entered the Texas ERCOT market.