Storage

Portland General Electric (PGE) has finalised agreements for more than 1,000MW of new renewable energy and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the US state of Oregon.

Potentia has completed the installation of nearly 161,000 solar modules at its Quorn Park hybrid solar-plus-BESS in Australia.

Edify Energy has named DT Infrastructure its preferred EPC contractor for two solar and BESS projects in Queensland.

Greenvolt and Reel have signed a partnership to deliver balancing and optimisation services for the Høegholm solar-plus-storage project.

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

YEC has opened an EOI process for commercial and industrial customers seeking renewable energy offtake in Pilbara,Western Australia.

Developers are forecast to add a record 43.4GW of new solar PV capacity to the US power system in 2026, according to the EIA.

Co-located storage has been “overhyped” as a prop for commercially underperforming solar assets in Europe and should not be regarded as a “silver bullet”.

Wooderson Solar Development Co has secured federal environmental approval for a 450MW solar PV power plant with 3,600MWh of co-located battery energy storage in Queensland, Australia.

Independent power producer (IPP) Scatec has reached commercial operations for the first phase of its 1.1GW solar-plus-storage project in Egypt.