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Australia Greenlights Wooderson’s 8-Hour Grid Battery

EPBC greenlight propels AUD 1.9b Wooderson: 980,000-panel solar plus 450‑MW/3,600‑MWh battery to power 235,000 homes and deliver dispatchable capacity to Queensland by 2031.

Feb 20, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Australia, queensland, Oceania, res, EnergyEstate

Boom Power’s 237.5MW Fenwick Solar Clears U.K. DCO

Boom Power secures DCO, NSIP status, for 237.5-MW Fenwick Solar Farm in South Yorkshire, with co-located battery, set to power 75,000 homes; next: design, finance, grid.

Feb 19, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, UK, Europe, Fenwick

Shell’s Savion Buys 2-GW Hanford Solar-Storage Project

Hecate sells up to 2‑GW Cereza solar-plus-storage at Washington’s Hanford Site to Shell’s Savion, which leads development; rare gigawatt project targets corporate offtake, grid services, and peak shifting.

Feb 19, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Washington, North America, hecate, Savion

Australia Clears Tonic’s Solar Park With 440-MWh Battery

Tonic Group secures approval for an Australian solar park with 440‑MWh battery, turning sun into dispatchable power—cutting curtailment, boosting capture prices, and bolstering evening peaks and grid reliability.

Feb 18, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Battery Storage, Australia, Oceania, Solar Park, Planning Approval, Grid reliability

Clearway Powers Up $685 Million ERCOT Solar-Storage Hub

Clearway’s $685M Texas solar-plus-storage shifts sunshine to evening peaks, stacking ERCOT revenues with EMS-optimized batteries, co-location efficiencies, and sharp O&M—delivering cleaner power, grid services, and bankable resilience.

Feb 18, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Texas, solar plus storage, North America, clearway, ERCOT, ommissioning

Swelect, FortifyGrid Forge Asia-Wide Solar-Storage Push

Asia’s grids get smarter: Swelect and FortifyGrid fast-track bankable solar-plus-storage, standardizing designs with bifacial arrays, 2–4h batteries, and EMS control to firm evenings, cut costs, and monetize flexibility.

Feb 18, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Asia, BESS, Solar Storage, Partnership, project development

Qair Secures $8.3 Million for Mauritius Solar-Storage

Qair seals $8.3M to power Mauritius with a hybrid solar-battery, displacing diesel, stabilizing evening peaks, and showcasing a bankable, grid-forming island blueprint built for harsh maritime conditions.

Feb 12, 2026 // Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, storage, hybrid, Africa, financing, Mauritius, island grids

Grenergy Nabs $355 Million for Chile Solar-Storage Fleet

Grenergy lands $355m to fast-track Chilean solar-plus-storage, linking new PV and 2–4h batteries to existing substations, slashing curtailment and shaping evening power while boosting jobs and grid stability.

Feb 12, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Chile, South america, solar-plus-storage, financing, Grenergy, portfolio

Fermi Raises $500M for Texas Private Energy Campus

Fermi raises $500M for a Texas behind‑the‑meter power-and-data campus, blending solar, grid‑forming batteries and ERCOT arbitrage to guarantee AI/industrial uptime, price certainty—and co‑site power with compute.

Feb 11, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, ENERGY STORAGE, Texas, North America, project finance, data centers, private grid

Engie, Return Seal 100MW German Battery Flex Deal

Engie and Return unite 100‑MW battery fleet in Germany, stacking FFR, reserves, congestion relief and arbitrage with grid‑forming precision—optimizer rotates duties, monetizes volatility, eases bottlenecks and de-risks financing.

Feb 6, 2026 // Storage, Germany, Battery Storage, Europe, Flexibility, ancillary services, aggregation

Green Genius Switches On Latvia Solar; Batteries Next

Green Genius powers Latvia with a 121‑MW bifacial solar park and co-located, liquid‑cooled storage, shifting sun to evening peaks, unlocking grid services, substation savings, and firm, bankable green revenues.

Feb 6, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Battery Storage, Europe, utility solar, Latvia, commissioning, grid flexibility

Recharge Power Lands Taiwan Solar-Plus-Storage EPC

Recharge Power secures Taiwanese utility-scale solar-plus-storage EPC: bifacial trackers, liquid-cooled batteries, EMS optimization, grid-forming stability, typhoon-ready build—delivering firm shaped offtake, reduced curtailment, and ancillary-service revenues.

Feb 5, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, solar-plus-storage, Taiwan, utility scale, EPC Contract, grid flexibility

CIMIC Seeks Green Light for Queensland Solar-Storage Hub

CIMIC’s Queensland hybrid hub pairs utility solar and 2–4‑hour grid‑forming battery for evening power, targeting FCAS and curtailment relief, with robust environmental safeguards and next-step grid studies.

Feb 5, 2026 // Storage, Australia, queensland, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, permitting, CIMIC

Enlight Pushes $3 Billion Arizona Solar-Storage Flagship

Enlight’s $3B Arizona solar-plus-storage hybrid pairs bifacial PV and grid-forming batteries to hit evening peaks, stabilize the grid, streamline interconnection, unlock tax credits, and create jobs.

Feb 3, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Arizona, solar-plus-storage, North America, project finance, Grid reliability

NSW Court Clears Hunter Solar-Battery Project, Trimming Risk

NSW court greenlights contested Hunter solar-plus-storage, setting a permitting precedent as coal retires. Legal certainty de-risks finance, speeds evening-peak batteries—and spotlights smarter mitigation and community engagement.

Feb 3, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Australia, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, new south wales, permitting, court ruling

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