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The grid-forming BESS will be located around 82km southwest of Melbourne. Image: FRV Australia.

FRV Australia reaches financial close on 500MWh grid-forming BESS

August 6, 2025
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) Australia has reached financial close on the 250MW/500MWh Gnarwarre battery energy storage system (BESS) in Victoria.
CATL's exhibition stand at RE+ 2024 in California, US. Image: Andy Colthorpe / Solar Media

Analysis: CATL’s ESS battery revenues down 1% in H1, but tariff impact unclear

August 5, 2025
CATL, the world’s biggest lithium-ion OEM, saw flat ESS revenues in the first half of the year, but the extent to which this can be blamed on the increased US-China tariffs, if at all, is far from clear.
The IPC decision on the project and its site (pictured), followed a period of public consultation. Image: Someva Renewables via LinkedIn

AGL JV gets planning approval for AU$2 billion wind-plus-storage in New South Wales, Australia

August 5, 2025
Australian energy major AGL has welcomed the approval in New South Wales (NSW) of a large-scale wind power plant with battery storage.
Image: Akaysha Energy.
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Australia’s Capacity Investment Scheme ‘should expand to support long-duration storage’

August 5, 2025
“We need some form of policy or expansion of the CIS for LDES,” Nick Hawke, director of Australia’s CEFC, tells ESN Premium.
Image: AEMO.

Australia: HMC Capital completes AU$950 million acquisition of Neoen’s Victoria portfolio

August 5, 2025
HMC Capital has completed the acquisition of Neoen’s energy storage and renewables portfolio in Victoria, Australia.
Image: Marinus Link.

Australia’s Marinus Link achieves FID and secures EPBC Act approval for Tasmania interconnector

August 5, 2025
Marinus Link Pty has secured FID and EPBC Act approval for the first stage of its HVDC interconnector connecting Victoria and Tasmania.
Image: Akaysha Energy (via LinkedIn).

Akaysha Energy’s ‘giant shock absorber’ Waratah Super Battery switched on in Australia

August 5, 2025
The first 350MW/700MWh of the Waratah Super Battery in New South Wales, Australia, has officially come online.
Image: Fluence.

Hybrid battery systems: A new frontier for Australia’s energy market

August 4, 2025
Fluence’s Matt Grover and Sam Markham discuss the growing opportunity for hybrid renewables-plus-storage projects in Australia.
Image: Energy Security Corporation (via LinkedIn).

New South Wales’s green bank Energy Security Corporation: ‘If there’s a gap getting a project over the line, we will try and play a role’

August 4, 2025
Paul Peters, CEO of the New South Wales Energy Security Corporation (ESC) discusses the investment mandate of the newly launched green bank.
Image: Akaysha Energy.

Grid-scale battery storage discharging hits all-time quarterly high in Australia’s NEM

August 1, 2025
Grid-scale BESS discharge has hit an all-time quarterly high in Australia’s National Electricity Market for an average of 162MW in Q2 of 2025.

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