The US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has progressed nine hybrid solar and storage facilities located across the states of Nevada and Arizona.

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has granted US independent power producer (IPP) BrightNight approval to connect its Mortlake Energy Hub, which includes solar and storage facilities, to the Victoria grid.

Renewables developer Clearway Energy Group has closed a US$700 million construction financing on a portfolio of solar and storage projects in California, US.

Japan is one of the most talked-about emerging grid-scale energy storage markets in Asia, and featured prominently at the Energy Storage Summit Asia.

The US Department of Energy has issued a loan of up to US$861.3 million to support 200MW solar PV and 285MW/1,140MWh BESS in Puerto Rico.

Tesla has agreed to supply US solar PV and energy storage developer Intersect Power with 15.3GWh of its Megapack battery storage solution.

US solar PV and energy storage project developer Intersect Power has closed two financing deals worth US$837 million for three battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.

Renewables developer rPlus Energies has secured more than US$1 billion for a 400MW solar-plus-storage project In Utah, US.

Winning bids as low as IR3.41/kWh (US$0.041/kWh) have been registered in a tender for solar PV paired with battery storage hosted by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).

Emerging energy storage markets across Asia face a similar learning curve today as their maturing counterparts have done in the past.