France plans to install 18GW of offshore wind capacity within the next 11 years.

- Bloomberg

UK battery storage pipeline expands to over 95GW businessgreen.com/4204146/ via @businessgreen

Minnesota project replacing coal plant with
solar + synchronous condenser + iron-air battery

Synchronous condenser will provide grid inertia. Their iron -air battery stores up to 10 MW for 100 MW. canarymedia.com/articles/solar…

The global energy storage market almost tripled in 2023, the largest year-on-year gain on record. 📊

And in 2024, the market is set to add more than 100 GW-hours of capacity for the first time, largely driven by growth in China.

Eskom EAF, PCLF & UCLF data for week 17, 2024, published today. Herewith the latest Eskom week-on-week energy availability factor (EAF), planned capacity loss factor (PCLF) and unplanned capacity loss factor (UCLF) charts prepared from the Eskom Hld SOC Ltd data by EE Business Intelligence:

Australia is preparing to launch its offshore wind industry

The first 12 projects could total 25GW of renewable capacity.

Australia plans to get to 82% renewable electricity by 2030.
reneweconomy.com.au/six-projects-n…

Two solar PV projects in South Africa's REIPPPP Bid Window 6 reach commercial close. They are 240MW Virginia Solar Park led by IPP, Red Rocket South Africa (Pty) Ltd and 120MW Doornhoek PV (Pty), led by IPP, AMEA Power. Well done!
greenbuildingafrica.co.za/two-solar-proj…

G7 countries agree to shut all their coal power plants within the next 10 years

- Most are on track to do so, but Japan will have a lot of work to do to get there

theprogressplaybook.com/2024/04/29/g7-…

The DMRE announces that the first 2 projects under REIPPPP Bid Window 6 reached commercial close today. The 2 solar PV projects will together contribute 360 MW to the grid. Seems like wind, solar PV & battery energy storage are the only games in town for new generation capacity.

Batteries smash more records as they shift solar to evening peak in one of world’s biggest grids
reneweconomy.com.au/batteries-smas…