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Cape Town at night. South Africa suffers from widespread and frequent grid outages as operator Eskom struggles with reliability. Image: Martie Stewart / Flickr.

Cape Town invests in PV-plus-storage project to decouple from South African grid’s load-shedding

April 19, 2023
A solar-plus-storage project is being planned for the capital of South Africa, as the city looks to move “away from Eskom reliance and towards a load-shedding-free Cape Town”, its Mayor said.
Four large-scale solar PV projects in Japan, completed by developer Amp Energy shortly before the end of 2021. The market is increasingly moving away from large-scale ground mount plants. Image: Amp Energy.

Japan’s PV market moves into ‘Green Transformation’ phase

March 15, 2023
Japanese annual PV market size for 2022 is estimated to be 6.5GWDC, which is about the same volume as 2021.
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Mexico’s government approval for solar-plus-storage plant welcomed as shift in thinking

January 20, 2023
A state-owned solar-plus-storage project being developed in Mexico firmly establishes the shift in government thinking on energy storage, a local battery storage firm told sister site Energy-Storage.news.
VPP partnership members Sunrun and Ford have collaborated to create bi-directional charging capabilities for the latters F150 Lightning electric truck. Image: Sunrun / Ford.

Sunrun, Sunpower, Google Nest and more in new RMI-led virtual power plant partnership

January 12, 2023
Google’s smart home division has joined Ford, Sunpower, Sunrun in partnership centred around scaling market for virtual power plants (VPP).
Spain’s climate makes it a great place for solar PV farms. Naturgy is one of those to have developed projects in the country. Image: Naturgy. Image: Naturgy.

Approvals sought in Spain for solar-plus-storage project with 200MWh BESS

January 5, 2023
A Madrid-headquartered developer has proposed a solar-plus-storage system in Spain with a 100MW/200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).
Aerial view of the PV-plus-BESS plant. Image: Colbún.

Chilean utility Colbún completes 230MW PV project with 32MWh battery storage system

December 1, 2022
Utility Colbún has inaugurated a solar-plus-storage project with a 32MWh battery energy storage system in the Atacama region of Chile.
Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the Fall Economic Statement yesterday. Image: Chrystia Freeland via Twitter.

Canada introducing ITC for solar PV, energy storage and low-carbon hydrogen

November 4, 2022
Canada’s government will introduce tax incentives for clean energy technologies, including solar PV, battery storage, and hydrogen.
Part of Macho Springs Solar, a 50MW PV plant in New Mexico worked on by Bakker's previously founded company, Atlas Renewable Power. Image: El Paso Electric.

US solar and battery storage developer Mission Clean Energy acquired by asset manager Wafra

October 24, 2022
Controlling interest in US developer Mission Clean Energy has been acquired for an undisclosed sum.
Detail of Windcharger, Alberta's first grid-scale battery storage project, installed in 2020. Image: Transalta.

Solar PV-plus-flow battery project in Alberta underway from oil & gas pipeline company TC Energy

October 7, 2022
Energy infrastructure group TC Energy has begun work on a solar PV power plant in Alberta, Canada, the company’s first solar project.
Victoria's energy minister Lily D'Ambrosio announced the awards yesterday. Image: Friends of the Earth.

Victoria renewables auction won by 623MW solar projects with 600MWh of batteries

October 7, 2022
Renewable Energy Target auction held in Victoria, Australia, won by six solar PV projects, four of which include battery storage.

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