Akaysha Energy has reached final commercial operations at its Waratah Super Battery in New South Wales, Australia.

The New South Wales (NSW) government has granted development consent for the 200MWh Deniliquin East battery energy storage system.

ESR, a Singapore-headquartered real asset owner and manager focused on logistics real estate and data centres, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Aquila Clean Energy APAC.

AEMO has said that a record 9.1GW of new renewable energy and storage capacity connected to the National Electricity Market (NEM) in FY26.

AGL has advanced two grid-scale BESS in New South Wales, one now before Australia’s EPBC Act and the other still in early planning.

Two Victorian battery storage projects have reached new construction and commissioning milestones this week, both connecting to the National Electricity Market (NEM) in Australia.

Compressed air energy storage (CAES) holds much promise for large-scale, LDES, but has struggled to get off the ground outside of China.

Australia’s Victoria mandates new data centres match demand with own renewable energy and battery storage under new rules.

Nearly 21GWh of grid-scale BESS came online globally last month, of which around a fifth was in Saudi Arabia while the majority was in China. 

Lightsource bp has referred a hybrid wind, solar and BESS facility to the federal government for assessment under the EPBC Act.