Energy Storage News - June 26th, 2020

This week’s TOP 5 talks about Amazon’s $2-billion Climate Pledge Fund, Ib Vogt’s Yanco project combining 60 MW of solar PV with 57 MW of battery storage in Australia, Gore Street Capital’s acquisition of a 50-MW Scottish storage project, the U.S. Moving Forward Act (H.R.2) that sets high hopes for solar and storage if passed and Energy Kitchen’s cookery of the Cabrero wind-plus-storage project in Chile.

 

  1. Amazon unveiled its $2-billion Climate Pledge Fund to invest in companies facilitating the transition to a zero-carbon economy by 2040. 

  2. Ib Vogt’s Yanco solar-plus-storage project is being fast-tracked under New South Wales’ Planning System Acceleration Program. It will combine 60 MW of solar PV with 57 MW of battery storage.

  3. Gore Street Capital has bought the 50-MW Ferrymuir Energy Storage project in Scotland, taking its total energy storage portfolio to 239 MW.

  4. US solar and storage poised to benefit greatly if the Moving Forward Act (H.R.2) gets signed into law.

  5. German start-up Energy Kitchen started development works at the 95.2-MW Cabrero wind farm that features a 20-MW battery in Chile.