Storage

2.6GW of large-scale generation projects reached financial close in Australia in H1 2026, with solar accounting for 92% of the capacity.

Solar and battery storage projects have pushed Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) connection pipeline up 43% in a year to 80.9GW, overtaking the grid's existing 77GW of capacity for the first time.

Recurrent Energy has announced the start of commercial operations at the 200MWp Villameca Project in Castilla y León, Spain.

Spanish IPP Grenergy has secured a US$457 million non-recourse senior financing for a 446MW Chilean solar-plus-storage portfolio.

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.

Clean technology provider SAMDUO unveiled its Nex E6000 and Nex E6000H home batteries at Solar Solutions Amsterdam in March 2026.

As solar PV continues to grow globally, the technology is set to become the largest contributor to the world’s electricity mix from 2031, according to a report from technical and safety expert DNV.

Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation (YEC) has lodged the DA for the Baru Marnda Renewable Energy Project, featuring a 500MW solar PV power plant.

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

Kern County has approved US independent power producer (IPP) Terra-Gen’s 600MW solar and 4GWh battery storage project near California City.