US utility Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) will terminate its offshore wind lease in the Carolina Long Bay area under a settlement agreement with the US Department of the Interior (DoI) and will redirect nearly USD 129 million (EUR 113.1m) to new…
Saft has completed large-scale fire tests on its I-Flex battery energy storage system (BESS) under the latest ANSI/CAN/UL 9540A:2026 fire test standard, with the company reporting that fire remained confined to the initiating container under the test conditions. The TotalEnergies…
Envision Energy has signed an agreement to supply a 660 MWh battery energy storage system for the Naos-1 hybrid solar-plus-storage project near Viljoenskroon in South Africa’s Free State province, the company said in a statement. The project, developed by SOLA…
Japanese trading house Toyota Tsusho said it has won contract works to install a 50 MW/160 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) serving three solar plants in Benin’s Pobè region. The battery project will serve the TTC, Deffisol, and Forsun…
Five distributed solar projects are under construction across Buenos Aires province and three more are in the tendering phase under a provincial program to strengthen electricity supply in areas with constrained grids. The projects form part of the Solar Distributed…
Germany and the rest of the European continent were several days into an intensifying heatwave when pv magazine Focus 2026 convened in Munich on June 24. The heat lent a measure of immediacy to a theme running through much of…
Envision Energy and UK-based developer Elements Green have signed a supply agreement for the Stadorf battery energy storage project in Lower Saxony, Germany. The companies announced the partnership at The smarter E Europe trade fair in Munich last week. Envision…
UNSW Canberra has partnered with energy technology company Voltval and JT Solar Technology to pilot an AI-powered system designed to coordinate rooftop solar and shared battery storage across apartment buildings, said the university. Voltval and JT Solar developed the underlying…
Italian developer ContourGlobal is active in many of the world’s biggest solar and storage markets but until recently it had not cracked the United Kingdom. That changed with the company’s June 24 announcement it acquired the 500 MW/2 GWh Wallace…
The European Council has signed off on a major energy storage agreement that commits EU member states to ramping up deployment by at least 20% against 2025 figures. Billed as the first-ever tripartite agreement for energy storage, the deal commits…