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Solar, storage and other renewables projects are facing unprecedented interconnection queues in some parts of the US. Jonathan Touriño Jacobo reports on the struggle solar and storage developers are facing in getting projects off the ground and the efforts underway to ease the problem.

The new projects will support new capacity in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico as well as Maine.

Reducing volatility impacts, managing cannibalisation and investing in grids will help solar energy cement its role in global energy systems.

The global target to treble renewable energy capacity to 11TW by 2030 is off track, according to a report from BloombergNEF (BNEF).

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published a draft roadmap to reform the grid connection processes for distributed renewable energy.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has invested US$2.2 billion in the grid across eight projects covering 18 states.

South Australia signs a Renewable Energy Transformation Agreement, to build infrastructure for the region to be powered by 100% green energy.

Germany generated more power from renewable energy sources in the first half of 2024 than at any other time in its history, according to a report from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).

India is still facing several challenges to increase its installed solar capacity, including financing and grid infrastructure. 

Stelios Psomas, policy advisor at HELAPCO looks at the current state of the solar PV market in Greece and what role energy storage plays.