Hawaii’s main utility Hawaiian Electric has entered into contract negotiations with the developers of 15 renewable energy projects, including solar, wind and a combined 2.1GWh of energy storage.

Dominion Energy will pilot the deployment of a novel metal-hydrogen battery, making it the latest new non-lithium technology the US utility is trying out.

The national electric utility of Senegal, Senelec, has signed a 20-year capacity change agreement (CCA) with developer Infinity Power for a 40MW/160MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project.

Longroad Energy has achieved financial close on a large-scale solar-plus-storage in Arizona acquired from solar manufacturer First Solar.

Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO) has received board approval to deploy a solar-plus-storage project with up to 940MWh of capacity, after two smaller co-operatives completed smaller co-located projects in the state.

US utility company Georgia Power is gauging interest from providers of potential capacity resources including standalone energy storage, hybrid generation-plus-storage and thermal power plants.

Dominion Energy will pilot deployment of two novel non-lithium technologies designed for long-duration energy storage (LDES) applications.

Municipal utility Thurplus has commissioned a 3MW/3MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in its Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland.

Israel-based renewable energy firm Enlight’s US subsidiary Clēnera has signed a 20-year power purchase (PPA) with utility Arizona Public Service (APS) for a solar-plus-storage project.

UAE-based renewable energy developer AMEA Power has signed a long-term PPA with the national utility of Djibouti for a 25MW solar PV plus battery storage unit.