The financial close of two significant large-scale projects in Egypt could mark progress for the country’s nascent energy storage sector.

Prospect14 became the latest US renewable energy developer to have a hybrid storage project application scrutinised and ultimately rejected.

A fire protection and emergency services provider in California, US, has introduced a mandatory risk mitigation payment system for solar PV and energy storage developers.

Enlight Renewable Energy is expanding its Gecama Wind Project in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, by integrating solar PV and battery energy storage systems (BESS).

California CCA SDCP has amended the terms of two power purchase agreements relating to the two largest solar-plus-storage projects in its portfolio.

Sumitomo Electric has inaugurated a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) system at a community solar microgrid in southern Japan.

Spanish independent power producer (IPP) Grenergy has planned to invest €3.5 billion (US$3.9 billion) to increase its energy storage and hybrid portfolio by 2027.

Even during times of turmoil for the US renewable energy industry, IPPs are continuing to secure long-term offtake agreements in California.

BYD will supply more than half of the total battery storage capacity at developer Grenergy’s 11GWh Oasis de Atacama project in Chile.

Elements Green has received grid connection approval from Powerlink Queensland and the AEMO for a 1.3GWh solar-plus-BESS site in Queensland.