Andy Colthorpe

South Korea’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment (MCEE) has unveiled its KRW1,000 trillion (US$747 billion) Korean Green Transformation (K-GX) industrial strategy.

Renalfa IPP and Danish renewables developer Eurowind Energy have began commercial operations at a 242MWp solar-plus-storage hybrid park in Bulgaria.

The European Commission (EC) has launched a new strategy to address the fossil fuel energy crisis in the Middle East and accelerate the “shift to homegrown, clean energies”, said EC president Ursula von der Leyen.

The Philippines government has announced that large-scale renewable energy installations will have to integrate energy storage into their projects.

French renewables company Voltalia has started site preparation works on a 43MW/135MWh solar-plus-storage project in French Guiana, a French overseas territory in South America.

Spain-based developer Acciona Energia will add a gigawatt-hour-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) at its 238MWp Malgarida solar PV plant in Chile.

Osaka Gas and Sonnedix have announced plans to install a BESS at the latter's 38.7MW Oita solar project in Japan.

The Philippines has commissioned the Batangas 1 project, the country's first to combine agriPV with a battery energy storage system (BESS).

Independent power producer Arevon Energy has powered the second phase of the Eland solar-plus-storage Center in Los Angeles, California.

Voting on the US tax reconciliation bill is expected to begin in the Senate today, following a draft published on Friday that hit clean energy tax credits hard.