Independent power producer (IPP) Sunraycer Renewables has closed a US$901 million project financing facility, supporting three solar-plus-storage projects in Texas, US.

Spanish developer and independent power producer (IPP) Zelestra has energised its 1GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

Solar PV and wind are now the cheapest sources of power, with co-located hybrids increasingly delivering round-the-clock electricity at fossil fuel-competitive costs in high-resource regions, according to a new report by IRENA.  

US investment group Pantheon Atlas LLC has a planned 1GW hyperscaler data centre campus in Croatia will be supplied entirely by renewables.

Trinasolar’s Europe & LAC president, Gonzalo de la Viña, discusses Trina Storage, the Chinese solar PV giant’s battery storage business, its strategies and projects.

US portfolio acquisition news from Goldman Sachs-backed BrightNight and Excelsior Capital-backed Lydian, and finance from AXA-backed ILOS Projects in Europe.

Zambia’s president, Hakainde Hichilema, attended the recent launch of the African country’s largest hybrid renewable energy project.

FlexGen has acquired CES, which has to date commissioned more than 15GWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.  

Chile continues to be Latin America’s hotspot for energy storage deployments, with a major new deal for Grenergy and Engie bringing a project online in the past week.

IPP Akuo will soon start building a 2.75-hour BESS project in Borba, Portugal, integrated into its 181MW Santas solar PV plant.