The US-based International Development Corporation (DFC) has provided a US$25 million loan for a solar-plus-storage project in Malawi with a 5MW/10MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).
Power conversion technology provider Ampt has received an order for its String Optimizers to power a large solar-plus-storage plant with an energy capacity of 600MWh in California.
Battery energy storage system integrator Powin has acquired EKS Energy, a provider of advanced power electronics and energy management solutions for energy storage and renewables.
Developer Terra-Gen has closed US$969 million in project financing for the second phase of Edwards Sanborn Solar-plus-Storage facility in California, which will bring it to 3,291MWh of energy storage capacity.
Australian mining group BHP will use a 45MW solar, 35MW battery energy storage system from Alinta Energy to halve emissions at its WA Iron Ore port facilities at Port Headland by end-2024.
Canadian Solar has launched a utility-scale energy storage product and announced a battery manufacturing capacity target of 10GWh by end-2023, up from 2.5GWh today.
A 200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) from developer Available Power at a net-zero technology campus in Texas, US, is expected to be online in mid-2024.
Utility and power company AES Corporation has brought the Lancaster Area Battery (LAB), the second portion of a combined 908MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) complex in California, online.
