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

Inaccess, which has worked on some of world’s biggest battery projects, has been acquired by renewables software company Power Factors.

Around 60% of new solar projects planned in US utility service areas are hybrid resources paired with storage. Recurrent Energy’s Lucas Moller explains the appeal.

An infrastructure group owned by Philippine billionaire Enrique K Razon has proposed construction of one of the biggest solar-plus-storage projects in the world.

Westbridge has added another large-scale solar-plus-storage project to its development portfolio in Alberta, Canada.

Modhera is India’s first fully solar powered town, demonstrating that battery storage can enable 24/7 clean energy.

A large-scale solar PV plant with four-hour duration battery storage could be built on underutilised land at a US Armed Forces Base in Hawaii.

Canadian Solar has said its project development arm has a pipeline of more than 27GWh of battery storage projects.

Sungrow will supply battery storage equipment to Tata Power Solar for a project in Ladakh, India.

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.