Progress is being made at one of Australia’s biggest co-located solar and energy storage projects.

Trina Storage has formed a partnership with solar inverter manufacturer Power Electronics to jointly deploy battery storage.

Co-located storage is growing as a proportion of the UK market with 7.2GW of projects in the pipeline, but structuring deals and offtake agreements presents a complex challenge according to an expert source.

Study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative has found energy storage can be a key enabler for the clean energy transition.  

Duke Energy’s carbon reduction plan for its Carolina businesses includes proposals for a “significant growth” in energy storage deployments.

Intersolar Europe event saw a number of energy storage-related announcements from Chinese solar PV industry players.

Energy storage deployment in the US is growing at a phenomenal pace. But the appetite for storage is much greater than the ability to build, and getting grid interconnection rights is often the biggest hurdle.

Tesla made 846MWh of battery energy storage system deployments in the first quarter of this year.

A solar-plus-storage power plant, deployed at the site of an opencast lignite mine in Germany, is almost ready to go into action.

Debt and equity financing worth US$1.9 billion has been closed for one of the US’ largest solar-plus-storage power plants to date.