solar-plus-storage

Creative Solar USA and Canada’s Eguana Technologies have installed and commissioned a fleet of more than 20 residential energy storage systems (ESS) in the US state of Georgia.

The initiative is part of the state’s ‘Solarize Atlanta and Carrollton-Carroll (SACC) campaigns.’

In 2018, Creative contracted more than 170 solar PV installations under the SACC campaign, for a total capacity >1.2MW. As part of the initial roll out, “two dozen of Eguana’s ‘Evolve’ ESS units were selected by Georgia homeowners as their battery system of choice.

8minutenergy Renewables, JP Morgan, and “an affiliate of Upper Bay Infrastructure Partners”, announced that they have entered a joint venture to support 8minutenergy’s 10.7GW pipeline of utility solar-plus-storage projects.

The joint venture will, along with investment from 8minutenergy’s owner and CEO, Tom Buttgenbach, will raise over US$200 million in capital commitments.

“We have been the largest and most successful solar developer in California and have expanded our cost leadership across the US”, commented Buttgenbach. “A testament to our low-cost leadership is the 420MW Eagle Shadow Mountain Solar plant in Nevada, which at 2.3 cents/kWh fixed for 25 years, holds the record for the lowest-price solar PPA in the nation.

US-based solar-plus-storage specialist Sunnova Energy and Japanese sogo sasha (general trading company) Itochu have entered a business alliance “to promote the service and capabilities of solar plus storage solutions in the United States.” Under the agreement, Itochu has made an (undisclosed) equity investment in Sunnova.

The two companies have indicated intentions to evaluate “GrideShare Client”— the AI software of UK-based residential energy storage firm Moixa— for use in Sunnova’s solar-plus-storage systems.

A 25MW/50MWh Tesla lithium-ion battery pack has entered service at the 60MW Gannawarra solar PV farm to create the first integrated solar and storage project in the state of Victoria, and the largest in Australia.

The Gannawarra battery— which was developed by Australian renewables company Edify Energy— is capable of powering more than 16,000 homes through two hours of peak demand. EnergyAustralia will operate the combined solar farm and battery facility.