Published: 20 Jan 2021, 06:42
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Some of Green Investment Group s selected year-in-review highlights of 2020. Image: GIG via Twitter.
The Green Investment Group (GIG), a company owned by financial services group Macquarie, is investing an unspecified sum into esVolta, a US-headquartered developer and owner of utility-scale energy storage projects.
esVolta has 600MWh+ of contracted energy storage projects in California, including the 75MW / 300MWh Hummingbird Energy Storage project which is one of several new facilities enabling investor-owned utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to retire a 605MW natural gas plant in Coyote Valley, California. Elsewhere in the state - which has aggressive policy goals to reach 100% clean energy by 2045 - the developer was picked by Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) groups to help support their supply of electricity to retail customers with a 15MW / 60MWh standalone battery storage project. In February 2020, esVolta closed a sen
South Oxfordshire solar farm plan. Picture: Enso Energy A LARGE solar farm could soon be built on land near Oxford. Proposals for a solar farm and battery storage facility to the south west of Cowley Substation in Nuneham Courtenay have been submitted to South Oxfordshire District Council. Enso Green Holdings Limited, a joint venture between Enso Energy and the Green Investment Group, has put in the plans and say the site, off the A4074, could generate enough power for the equivalent of 13,000 homes each year. It would be built on 139 hectares, comprising the grid connection cable route to the Cowley Substation and six large adjoining fields.