The community of the Daintree Rainforest region in Queensland, Australia, will host a “world-leading renewable microgrid”.

China is targeting a non-hydro energy storage installed capacity of 30GW by 2025 and grew its battery production output for energy storage by 146% last year, state media has said.

Energy storage system integrators are diversifying their procurement strategies to ease supply chain constraints.

Hybrid projects in Australia have enabled a gold mine and a remote township to run at 50% or more average penetration of renewable energy. 

Genex Power has now achieved financial close on its 50MW/100MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Queensland, Australia. 

Redflow has reported a significant rise in revenues from its zinc-bromide flow batteries but the Australian company noted that it expects to remain “cash-flow negative for some time”.

Liam Stoker and Andy Colthorpe return for the February 2022 episode of the Solar Media Podcast.

Analyst Oliver Forsyth from IHS Markit explains exactly how things are changing in BESS system integration.

Fluence’s artificial intelligence-driven bidding platform will optimise large-scale wind and solar assets in Australia for Telstra Energy. 

Standalone storage, demand from commercial and industrial (C&I) customers and new types of grid services will increasingly help drive growth in energy storage in the coming years, but the future mix between battery-based and alternative storage types is still unclear.