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Metis Energy Secures Off-Taker for Queensland Solar Park
Metis Energy Ltd partners with SmartestEnergy Australia for 111-MWp Gunsynd Solar Farm in Queensland, set to power 32,000 homes annually by 2025.
Apr 3, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, queensland, PV Power Plant, Metis Energy
Brazil okays 457.5 MW of renewable projects from Oct 14 tender
Brazil's power field regulator Aneel accepted on Tuesday 457.5 MW of winning renewable resource projects from the A-5 tender held on October 14, 2022.
Feb 15, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, tender, South america, Brazil, ANEEL
Wärtsilä and SSE introduce 50MW/100MWh battery energy storage development
Wärtsilä is to offer a 50MW/100MWh energy storage space system for SSE's initial grid-scale battery project in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Jun 28, 2022 // Storage, Wärtsilä, SSE, Richard Cave-Bigley, Kenneth Engblom
Wärtsilä to Establish Netherlands' Largest Energy Storage System
Technology group Wärtsilä will provide a 25-megawatt (MW)/ 48-megawatt hr (MWh) power storage system to GIGA Storage BV in the Netherlands to assist secure the electric grid.
The system is anticipated to come to be operational in October 2022.
Dec 27, 2021 // Storage, Europe, Netherlands, Wärtsilä, Maarten Quist, Pekka Tolonen, energy storage system, GIGA Storage BV
Octopus Energy buys Japanese solar designer
Deal marks UK company's first step into the Asian renewables market
Apr 5, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Japan, Asia, Octopus Energy
Microsoft, Partners Launch Solar and Wind Energy Atlas-- GRW
It will be a first-of-its-kind living atlas intended to map and also gauge all utility-scale solar as well as wind installations on Earth.
Microsoft is offering the AI as well as platform modern technology, Planet Labs is contributing the underlying satellite images, and The Nature Conservancy is superimposing the subject-matter experience to analyze the output.
Sep 26, 2022 // Technology, Plants, Microsoft, The Nature Conservancy, GRW, Jennifer Morris, Juan Lavista Ferres, Planet Labs PBC, United Nations Climate Change Conference
Energy Transition's Big Dollars and also Big Themes
Energy transition investment complies with familiar patterns in worldwide capital markets. Large, well-known banks supply thousands of billions of dollars a year to finance construction of long-lived assets using familiar zero-carbon modern technologies-- i.e., deployment. Smaller institutions (some well-established, others quite new) supply tens of billions to fund company development and also the proving-out of brand-new innovations and also company designs-- so technology.
Feb 2, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Storage
Vena Energy Starts Building 408-MWh Battery in South Australia
Vena Energy begins construction of a 408-MWh battery at Tailem Bend, expanding its solar-storage hub and boosting South Australia’s grid stability.
Dec 8, 2025 // Storage, Australia, South Australia, Oceania, energy transition, Vena Energy, Tailem Bend
European Energy Breaks Ground on Cornwall Solar, 95-MWh Battery
European Energy breaks ground on a 68-MW solar project in Cornwall, paired with a 95-MWh battery in a hybrid site boosting grid stability, renewable integration, and peak-demand power.
May 28, 2026 // Plants, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, UK, Solar, Battery Storage, Europe, BESS, european energy
Egypt Eyes 3.1GW Sinai Clean-Energy Hybrid Plan
Egypt’s Ministry reviews a 3.1GW Sinai clean-energy plan by Renergy-led consortium: solar plus pumped-storage hydropower in two phases—boosting renewables, cutting fossil fuel use, and strengthening grid stability.
Aug 18, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Policy, Asia, Africa, Egypt, PV Power Plant, Renergy