Storage Acme Solar has secured a PPA with India’s state-owned NHPC for a 680 MW firm and dispatchable renewable energy ‘FDRE’ project to be built across the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Rajasthan, consisting of some mixture of solar, wind, and battery. Innova has received approval for a 1.025 GW / 2.05 GWh battery complex, the Almhome Energy Hub, to be built alongside a 49.9 MW solar farm in the UK. A $309 million investment has been committed to a sodium battery factory in Zhenyuan County, Guizhou Province, China, courtesy of Guizhou Qianna Technology. Battery energy storage system integrator Hyperstrong reached a $1.56 billion capitalization on its first day on the Shanghai stock exchange, surging 229%. Already the…