Power Ledger continues Australian peer-to-peer energy trading push
Energy trading firm Power Ledger’s peer-to-peer (P2P) technology is integrated from the design conception stage of a new property development in Australia.
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Australia’s CEFC commits AU$50m to expanding ‘landmark’ Tesla Hornsdale Power Reserve battery system
Australia’s national Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has said it will commit AU$50 million (US$34.14 million) to help fund expansion of landmark Hornsdale battery project in South Australia.
Flow batteries picked for New Zealand’s rural telecoms networks
Redflow’s zinc-bromine based devices have been picked by the New Zealand Rural Connectivity Group to help extend mobile coverage and internet connectivity to thousands of homes and businesses in remote areas.
VPP ROUNDUP: Latest including Japan, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, France
In what is unlikely to become a regular feature of Energy-Storage.news, but seems apt nonetheless, this edition rounds up news from some of the latest behind-the-meter orchestras of small-scale resources in the past few weeks.
‘Electricity market evolution’ sees Australia’s AGL inking 15-year firm capacity contract
Large-scale solar farm developer Maoneng Energy said it is expanding its battery energy storage portfolio in Australia, after signing a deal for 400MWh of projects with major utility company AGL.
RES’ major wind-plus-storage project given go ahead in South Australia
A wind farm with co-located battery storage, in development by UK-headquartered multinational renewables developer and EPC provider RES Group, is to go ahead in Australia.
International, domestic providers seek to capture potential of Australian market
Australia’s strong and ongoing potential for energy storage paired with solar PV has seen international and domestically-headquartered companies race to gain market share.
PODCAST: From here to net zero, collaborations and partnerships, #storageITC and more
Solar Media's Liam Stoker and Andy Colthorpe are back for episode three of the Solar Media Podcast after what's been a bumper month for energy storage.
Saft supplies ‘mini grid-scale battery storage’ to first Australia projects
Advanced battery technology company Saft has executed its first projects in Australia, installing around 2MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) at 13 sites in Queensland.
Investor Lyon Group partners with China Huadian to scale up push into Asia
Australian renewables investor Lyon Group has penned an agreement with China Huadian Corporation which will see the duo co-develop and invest in power-plus-battery energy storage systems across Australia, China and other Asian markets.
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SPONSORED: The ‘new animals’ of the grid: why energy optimization is your best investment
A new white paper from Wärtsilä Energy shows that being able to integrate and then optimise all of these different assets is the key to ensuring that your project - and your investment - is going to provide the maximum benefit, longest possible lifetime in the field - and the best business case. Risto Paldanius, Director of Business Development, Energy Storage and Integration at Wärtsilä told us a bit more about what optimization really means in today’s energy market.
Flow batteries offer low-carbon alternative for South Africa telecoms provider
Australia-headquartered flow battery maker Redflow is continuing with a strategy of selling devices into the telecoms sector, agreeing on a second deal to repower mobile phone towers for a South African provider.
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Open season: the next steps for energy storage
Despite the huge strides energy storage has made, significant hurdles remain before the technology in its many guises can be claimed to have fulfilled its massive potential. E-S.n editor Andy Colthorpe assesses the key successes and ongoing challenges for this indispensable part of the future power system.
Aussie university installs 7MW ‘water battery’ to reduce intensive AC energy use
Energy use by air conditioning can be both expensive and taxing for the environment, with the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, set to trial a three-storey ‘water battery’ to reduce both energy demand and cost.
ROUNDUP: Arnold’s AMS uses AI in Australia, Panel-level storage tries again, Growatt gets ESS-ready
News in brief from around the world of energy storage.
ROUNDUP: Australia’s vanadium, UK battery+EV charger deal, DC-coupled optimiser launch from Alencon
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
‘Transactive energy’ powers households as Australia’s AGL expands virtual power plant
Virtual power plants made up of household solar and battery systems look set to continue their rise in Australia, with utility AGL expanding the scope of an ongoing project significantly.
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Australia’s solar states defying the government coal train
Make no mistake - headlines in the mainstream press this week around Australia, climate change and energy are not positive. But enthusiasm at state level, where arguably politicians have closer relationships with their constituents, appears to run counter to apathy or even obstructionism from the top.
Flow players aim to create ‘global partnership’ in long duration energy storage
RedT has confirmed it has agreed outline terms for a reverse takeover of fellow vanadium redox flow battery firm Avalon, a move which the firm said would create a “leading player” in the energy storage market.
Queensland picks ‘top 10 shortlist’ for 400MW renewables, 100MW energy storage auction
A list of 10 proposed projects have been selected for ‘Renewables 400’, a state government push to deploy 400MW of renewable energy generation capacity with 100MW of energy storage in Queensland, Australia.
Undersea cable to take stored solar from Australia to ASEAN grid backed by state gov’t
Australian authorities have rallied behind what is arguably the largest solar-plus-storage project to be conceived in the world’s history.
Homeowners quick to sign up for solar battery rebate in Victoria, Australia
A pilot scheme in the Australian state of Victoria will give householders a rebate of “up to AU$4,838 for a solar battery system”, with a quarter of the first tranche of subsidies already accounted for since the scheme launched.
Major solar-wind-storage project at Queensland gold mine bags extra funding
Genex to reach financial close by the autumn for innovative pumped storage plant offering dispatchable solar through disused gold mine.
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Meeting Kokam: From oil platforms to renewables, why LFP vs NMC is ‘never-ending story’
We also asked what it means for the company to now be under SolarEdge's ownership, why effective management and control of batteries may be a more important safety question than just which battery chemistry to choose.
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Hybrid theory, in practice: energy storage as key to Australia’s energy ‘revolution’
Australia may be one of the leading major economies in terms of renewable deployments, but it’s woefully underprepared at a network level to actually make the transition...
Mega-scheme in Australia’s NSW proposes PV, pumped hydro and 150MWh of battery storage
PV and storage will take up a significant share of a major renewable complex in the works in Australia, according to new documents.
Australia’s largest solar-plus-storage project comes online
Australia’s largest solar-plus-storage project has come online in Victoria with Tesla batteries, proving that existing PV projects can be successfully retrofitted with battery storage.
Nominated: Projects in Brazil, Australia, Senegal compete for Solar & Storage Live Awards
A solar-plus-storage project in Brazil trialling different batteries, a 22MW solar farm with 2.4MW of battery storage in Senegal and NGK Insulators’ recent, huge project using sodium sulfur batteries in Abu Dhabi are among the nominees in this year’s Solar & Storage Live Awards: International project category.
Decarbonisation for Europe’s big businesses is ‘generally’ cheaper than business-as-usual, IHS says
Energy storage has moved out of an early, marketing and awareness phase, and real business is being done throughout Europe, Energy-Storage.news heard yesterday at the annual ees Europe show Munich, Germany.
Partnerships in Saudi and Australia plan future of long-duration flow battery deployment
Schmid and Saudi companies are also planning a gigawatt-scale manufacturing facility for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries.