A 100 MW, 2-hour, $69 million battery project has been approved in Anhui Province, as has a 100 MW 4-hour vanadium-flow project in Sichuan, a 62 MW 2-hour project to join 200 MW solar in Shandong, and another half-dozen such projects variously approved or commissioned across China going by news reports from this week alone. Energix Renewables has obtained $520 million for a 416 MW, six-project solar portfolio across the US. Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) has received regulatory approval to acquire a 200 MW solar plant in the US state of Louisiana. OMV Petrom has purchased a 710 MW solar portfolio in its home country of Romania in Teleorman county. Grenergy has signed a 12-year PPA with an undisclosed…