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Norwegian clean power storage space designer FREYR Battery has implemented its inaugural off-take arrangement for at the very least 31 GWh of low-carbon battery cells with an undisclosed producer and also company of energy storage systems.

Lithium-ion battery pack prices, which were above $1,200 per kilowatt-hour in 2010, have fallen 89% in genuine terms to $132/kWh in 2021 [1] This is a 6% decline from $140/kWh in 2020.

Portuguese utility Galp Energia and also Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt stated Tuesday that they were joining forces to integrate in Portugal one of Europe's very first lithium conversion plants at a price of 700 million euros ($790 million).

German electrical utility Berliner Stadtwerke GmbH will set up more than 300 photovoltaic (PV) solar systems with a complete capacity of virtually 23 MW on the roofs of public buildings in Berlin by 2024.

A 5MWh flow battery system set up as part of the Energy Superhub Oxford has been energised by Invinity Energy Systems alongside EDF-owned Pivot Power.

UK solar and energy storage programmer Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE) has actually secured financing of an unspecified quantity from Hitachi Capital Business Finance to help expand its UK development pipeline.

Spanish renewables and gas firm Audax Renovables SA (BME: ADX) announced on Thursday it has bought a 12.36-MWp solar project in your home from an unrevealed seller.

NTR battery storage projects totaling 22MW have secured ten-year contracts for the supply of grid capacity to the Irish grid system.

Torrubia in Zaragoza is the firm's 3rd project in Spain to begin building in 2021

Public backing for renewables at a record high together with concern concerning environment change, finds BEIS

Most recent project takes developer's PV pipeline in the nation to 75MW

Three new utility-scale solar facilities from Walton Electric Membership Corp. (EMC), a consumer-owned utility, as well as Silicon Ranch, an independent power producer, are currently producing carbon-free renewable energy to aid sustain Meta's (formerly the Facebook company) operations in Georgia.

The European Union's (EU) solar PV market has actually navigated a year besieged by supply chain disruptions and module prices hikes to post record levels of yearly deployment, according to research from SolarPower Europe (SPE).

EDF Renewables and also European cloud options provider OVHcloud have actually become part of a 15-year power purchase contract (PPA) for the supply of electrical energy from a 50MW solar PV project in France.

Consumer-owned utility Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) and independent power producer (IPP) Silicon Ranch have completed the building and construction of 3 utility-scale solar PV projects with a total capacity of 287MW that will certainly be made use of to power Meta's (previously Facebook) procedures in Georgia, United States.