“The energy transition is not a pipe dream. It’s here and it’s happening right now,” declared Jackie Trad, the newly appointed CEO of the Clean Energy Council, at the start of All-Energy Australia 2025 in Melbourne this morning (29 October).

Tesla reported record energy storage deployments and business segment profits in Q3 2025, just ahead of a shareholder vote on CEO Elon Musk’s historic remuneration package.  

RedEarth’s Marc Sheldon admits that the company decided to push back the launch of Australia’s first locally manufactured V2G charger.

Australia’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program has surpassed 100,000 installations, with households and small businesses now benefiting from subsidised battery installations totalling 2GWh of distributed energy storage capacity.

Redwood Materials has closed a US$350 million Series E funding round to scale up its critical battery materials and energy storage businesses.

A pension fund will join the EBRD and EU Modernisation Fund in investing around €16 million (US$18.5 million) in a project on Croatia pairing large-scale BESS and a VPP.

The world’s largest lithium-ion company CATL has released its Q3 results, with revenue growth recovering from the previous period but its market share ‘somewhat impacted by capacity constraints’, a company executive said.

Tetchi Capellan, a pioneer of solar PV in the Philippines, discusses the country’s crucial turning point in its adoption of energy storage.

ARENA has committed AU$25 million to support startup Relectrify’s world-first ‘inverterless’ battery energy storage system (BESS).

A roundup of large-scale European BESS project news, with Principia completing a project in Greece, Repono buying one in Romania, Kyon choosing optimisers for two in Germany and Voltalia and NGEN targeting Portugal.