A busy week of grid-scale BESS project news from Germany, with numerous development, project, optimisation and tolling partnerships announced.

Chinese battery manufacturer EVE Energy has secured a contract with the Malaysian government to deploy an AC/DC integrated 36MWh solar-plus-storage system at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

A subsidiary of Juniper Green Energy has fully brought into commercial operation what the company claimed is India’s first merchant BESS project.

Jon Begona Alvarez and Beñat Murua Ugartemendia from Kiwa PI Berlin on why quality assurance is the foundation of long-term success.

Palmer Renewable Energy has submitted a referral under the EPBC Act for a 200MW solar-plus-storage project near Collie, Western Australia.

Amazon has been approved as the buyer of the 1.2GW Sunstone solar project in Oregon, one of the largest solar PV projects in the US.

DNV has forecast that the MENA region will add 860GW of new solar PV by 2040, and energy storage capacity will grow 10x by 2030.

San Diego-based home battery storage company NeoVolta has formed NeoVolta Power, a joint venture (JV) to develop a US battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturing platform in Pendergrass, Georgia.

The Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, has signed a clean energy bill into law that will boost solar PV and energy storage investments in the state, among others.

Curtailment of solar PV and wind continued to increase in Chile last year and passed 6TWh according to the Chilean renewable energy and energy storage association ACERA.