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.

Westbridge Renewable Energy has received approval for one of its four large-scale solar-plus-storage projects in Alberta, Canada.

US solar, wind installs lowest in three years, with only battery storage deployments growing among the three main clean energy technologies.

Microgrid projects in the US states of Washington and Maryland combining battery storage, solar and vehicle-grid integration have gone online.

French utility giant Engie has acquired 6GW of solar and battery storage projects from Belltown Power in the US.

Spanish renewables platform Matrix Renewables has closed financing for construction of its Gaskell 2 and 3 solar-plus-storage projects.

rPlus Energies has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) for 400MWac/200MW solar-plus-storage project in Emery County, Utah.

Gravity energy storage company Energy Vault’s battery storage division has been contracted to work on a 250MW two-hour duration project at a solar PV plant in Victoria, Australia.

Solar energy companby KarmSolar has secured US$2.4 million in bank financing for a solar-plus-storage project in Egypt.