Last year was a bumper year for ‘hybrid’ power plants across the US, thanks to falling battery prices and the growth of varied renewable energy generation, according to a new report by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A hybrid plant is any power plant that combines either multiple different types of power generation (say wind […]
Sungrow to Equip 36-MW Solar-Plus-Storage Plant At Egyptian Gold Mine – EQ Mag Pro
China’s Sungrow Power Supply Co Ltd (SHE:300274) announced on Friday that it will supply equipment for a 36-MW off-grid solar project at a gold mine in Egypt coupled with a 7.5-MW battery. Specifically, Sungrow will deliver the 1,500-V 6.25-MW photovoltaic (PV) inverter solution and the highly integrated energy storage system with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) […]
Sungrow Supplies the Largest Solar-Plus-Storage Solution For Northern Africa Mining Site – EQ Mag Pro
Cairo, Egypt : Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables, announced recently it forged the contract to supply equipment to juwi for the 36 MW off-grid solar farm and a 7.5MW battery energy storage system at Sukari gold mine operated by Centamin in Egypt. The project will be the largest solar-plus-storage plant located […]
Germany Allocates 156 MW of Solar Plus Storage in Innovation Auction – EQ Mag Pro
The weighted average tariff of the awarded projects was €0.0455 (~$0.0532)/kWh German Federal Network Agency Bundesnetzagentur has announced the auction results for the 250 MW solar innovation auction. In all, 16 solar plus storage projects with a combined capacity of 156 MW were declared winners in the auction. The last date for the submission of […]
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures Builds Its First Solar-Plus-Storage Project, in Australia
Global renewable energy development company Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) is building its first project to include solar PV and a battery energy storage system (BESS) at the same site, in Queensland, Australia. The company, which has put about 1,500MW of renewable energy projects into operation to date including eight projects in Australia and has over […]
Around 200 GW of Energy Storage in US Interconnection Queues at End of 2020
A solar-plus-storage installation in North Carolina. More than one-third of the solar in the interconnection queues is proposed as a hybrid plant. A record amount of solar capacity and energy storage is currently in US transmission interconnection queues, according to a new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). At 462GW, solar accounts for […]
Developer Signs Module Deal for 1 GW Las Vegas PV
Maxeon will supply panels for Primergy’s project starting in Q2 2022 over four quarters. US developer Primergy Solar has signed an agreement for solar modules from for a 1GW photovoltaic project it is developing in Las Vegas, Nevada.The agreement for the Gemini solar-plus-storage project will see the Maxeon-supplied modules delivered over a four-quarter period starting […]
Sunrun Deploys Record Solar Capacity in Q4 as Battery Interest Increases
More than a third of Sunrun’s California sales included batteries, and more than half of all Bay Area solar installations were storage-paired. The nation’s top rooftop solar installer finished the year with a burst of home solar-plus-storage deals. Sunrun installed a record 117 megawatts of solar in Q4, within its most recent guidance for the […]
Mytilineos heightens focus on solar in bid to reach 3GW of capacity by 2030
Mytilineos is looking to transfer its global experience of solar and storage project development to help decarbonise the Greek electrical system and hit 3GW of PV capacity by 2030. The industrial group earlier this month acquired 1.48GW of Greek solar parks as part of efforts to expand the company’s new renewables and storage development business […]
Hawaii Will Power Its Clean Grid With 6,000 Home Batteries Installed by Swell Energy
Swell’s largest contract yet comes after lining up $450 million to aggregate residential solar-battery systems to help the grid. Hawaii’s largest utility enlisted a new tool in its quest for a carbon-free electricity system: thousands of batteries installed in people’s homes. Hawaiian Electric won regulator approval for a $25 million plan to harness solar and […]