Queensland gets about 21% of its energy from renewables, but the state government has just set an increased target of 70% renewables by 2032.

Victoria, Australia, will target 6.3GW of renewable energy storage by 2035, one of the world’s most ambitious storage policy goals.

Australian mining group BHP will use a 45MW solar, 35MW battery energy storage system from Alinta Energy to halve emissions at its WA Iron Ore port facilities at Port Headland by end-2024.

Neoen has proposed building a gigawatt-scale BESS in a region of Australia with close and continuing ties to the coal industry.

Aquila Capital will acquire a pipeline of large-scale battery storage projects in development in Australia, from Spain’s Gransolar Group.

The Australia-based Electric Mine Consortium is seeking long duration energy storage solutions to help with decarbonising mining operations.

World Energy Storage Day Chair Dr Rahul Walawalkar on this year’s virtual global conference.

VFlowTech, a Singapore-based vanadium redox flow battery manufacturer, has signed an MoU with global liquid storage logistics group Advario.

Pilot production has been established by an Australian company making lithium-ion battery storage solutions designed for hot climates.

Spanish multinational Naturgy has bought a large-scale hybrid solar-plus-storage project in development in Australia.