On the first morning of the Energy Storage Summit, an expert panel faced pressing questions from Europe’s energy storage professionals.

EDF Renewables North America has begun operations on a 375MW/600MWh solar-plus-storage project in California, US.

Following his inauguration on Monday morning, US president Donald Trump signed a raft of executive orders outlining his administration’s plans for the next four years.

The US Department of Energy has issued a loan of up to US$861.3 million to support 200MW solar PV and 285MW/1,140MWh BESS in Puerto Rico.

EDP Renewables North America has inaugurated the 200MW/40MW Scarlet I solar-plus-storage project in Fresno County, California.

Germany has awarded 512MW of capacity to solar-plus-storage projects in its most recent Innovation Tender auction.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide up to US$229.4 million to ACWA Power to develop a 200MW/500MWh solar-plus-storage project in Uzbekistan.

France-headquartered independent power producer (IPP) Voltalia has started building a 126MW solar PV project in Uzbekistan, to which it will add a 50MW/100MWh BESS with plans to build another project ten times as big.

Developer Oracle Power and China Electric Power Equipment and Technology (CET) are looking to develop and build a 1.3GW project combining solar, wind and battery energy storage system (BESS) technology in Pakistan.

System integrator Ameresco will build a maximum 50MW/200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in partnership with Silicon Valley Power (SVP), the non-profit utility of the city of Santa Clara, California.