Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Australian JV to Build Country's Largest Privately Funded Battery
Engie, Macquarie's Green Investment Group (GIG), as well as Fluence have actually partnered to provide Australia's biggest privately-funded as well as possessed utility-scale battery. The project will link to existing network framework to support the shift to renewable energy at the website of the previous Hazelwood Power Station in the Latrobe Valley.
Dec 2, 2021 // Storage, Australia, Engie, Oceania, Fluence, GIG, Greg Callman, Aaron McCann, Augustin Honorat, Hazelwood Power Station, Macquarie’s Green Investment Group
Energy Dome Raises $11 M to Construct Cost-cutting CO2 Battery
The battery is claimed to keep energy at about fifty percent of the expense of keeping with comparable sized lithium-ion batteries. Unlike lithium-ion batteries that experience considerable performance degradation during their 7-10 year layout life, the CO2 Battery keeps its efficiency throughout its expected 25 year functional life, claims the company.
Dec 2, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Italy, Europe, Claudio Spadacini, CO2 Battery, Energy Dome, Series A fundraise
Wells Fargo makes maiden solar-storage tax equity financial investment
Significant US bank Wells Fargo has actually shut its maiden tax equity financial investment right into a colocated solar-storage project currently incomplete in New Mexico, United States.
Dec 2, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, investment, North America, Wells Fargo, tax equity, solar-storage, hybrid solar
An energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Batteries made from an electrically conductive combination the consistency of molasses might help fix a critical piece of the decarbonization puzzle.
Dec 1, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Emre Gençer
Westbridge acquires controlling stake in Canadian solar company
Sunnynook Solar Energy is developing 236MWdc solar and 100MW battery system
Dec 1, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Canada, North America, Westbridge Energy Corporation, Sunnynook Solar Energy, Stefano Romanin
Terrasun to supply power storage services for 174-MW solar, 352-MWh storage project in California
IHI Terrasun Solutions, a subsidiary of the IHI Corp., has actually authorized an agreement with Leeward Renewable Energy to supply energy storage space system options and lifecycle services for Leeward's Willow Springs 3 and Chaparral Solar utility-scale solar + storage projects in Kern County, California.
Dec 1, 2021 // Storage, California, USA, North America, Storage Project, IHI Terrasun Solutions
RGREEN INVEST makes primary step into UK market with financial investment right into 110MW of battery storage
French investment management business RGREEN INVEST has actually made its very first step right into the UK market, investing in four greenfield battery storage plants
Nov 30, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, UK, Europe, RGREEN INVEST, Nicolas Rochon, Arlington Energy
Quinbrook obtains UK battery trading platform
Renewables capitalist will certainly support Oxford-based Habitat Energy's expansion into the US as well as Australian markets
Nov 30, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, UK, Texas, Australia, Europe, Oceania, North America, ERCOT, Quinbrook, GLOBAL, Habitat Energy
Wartsila wins Chile storage contract
8MW battery system will be co-located with Colbun's 230MW Diego de Almagro solar farm
Nov 30, 2021 // Storage, Chile, South america, Wartsila, solar farm, Christoph Perathoner
Powin Announces New Centipede Battery Energy Storage System
Powin LLC, which designs and makes 'safe and scalable' battery energy storage solutions, introduced its brand-new Centipede battery energy storage space platform.
Nov 30, 2021 // Storage, Geoff Brown, ESRG, nick warner, platform design, Powin
iSun invests in commercial solar developer Encore Renewable Energy
Solar EPC company iSun is investing in US commercial PV project programmer Encore Renewable Energy as part of efforts to increase its geographic expansion.
Nov 30, 2021 // Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, EPC, agrivoltaics, North America, Encore Renewable Energy, iSun, EnergyStorageUSA
Work begins on 250 MW/250 MWh grid-forming battery in Australia
Unfinished by Australian utility AGL, the 250 MW/250 MWh battery is the largest planned grid-forming battery on the planet
Nov 30, 2021 // Storage, Australia, Oceania, AGL
Canadian Solar increases US$ 150m to fund power storage space growth, feasible M&A
'Solar Module Super League' (SMSL) member Canadian Solar has elevated US$ 150 million through a share offering, with profits readied to aid the maker broaden its energy storage space arm.
Nov 30, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Canadian Solar
Altus Power, Shell partner to offer integrated renewables solutions
US clean power company Altus Power Inc and Shell New Energies United States LLC on Monday announced a collaboration to offer integrated renewable energy as well as storage space solutions.
Nov 29, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, North America, shell, Altus Power
Elgin Energy aiming to release 5GW of solar-plus-storage in 3 years after US$ 33m raise
UK designer Elgin Energy is targeting 5GW of solar-plus-storage throughout its core markets by 2025 after finishing a ₤ 25 million (US$ 33.3 million) fundraising round.
Nov 29, 2021 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Storage, UK, Europe, solar-plus-storage, Elgin Energy, Jack O’Keeffe, fundraising, focus capital partners