solar plus storage

With solar-plus-storage project development increasing across the globe, PV Tech looked at its current challenges and advantages.

DE Shaw Renewable Investments has started construction at its 200MWac San Juan solar and storage project in the US state of New Mexico.

NextSource Materials has completed work at its solar-hybrid power plant to power its Molo graphite mine in southern Madagascar.

Large-scale renewable energy developer Intersect Power has secured a revolving credit facility to the tune of US$800 million to support the deployment of its solar, energy storage and wind asset pipeline.

US utility AES Corporation has added the 2GW Bellefield solar-plus-storage project to its portfolio after acquiring it from the project developer, Avantus.

Western US electricity utility Pacificorp has released its 2023 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) outlining significant solar, wind and storage capacity expansions as well as investment into new transmission lines.

The number of residential solar and storage systems installed in Germany increased 52% in 2022 compared with the previous year, whilst three quarters of Germans would consider installing rooftop solar.

Fixed DC-coupled architecture for solar-plus-storage is slowly becoming an industry standard for hybrid resources projects with greater benefits.

Saudi energy provider ACWA Power has signed agreements to develop 1.4GW of solar PV and 1.2GW of energy storage projects in Uzbekistan to be financed by the country’s Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade.

Finnish renewables developer Taaleri Energia – the renewables arm of Taaleri Group – and Nordics-focused developer Landinfra Energy have entered a partnership to develop 1.9GW of hybrid solar, energy storage and wind projects in Sweden.