An AU$120 million (US$81.34 million) government funding round has opened in Australia for community battery energy storage projects.

It is “vital” that energy storage systems are incorporated into the energy infrastructure of the Philippines, president has said.

The Australian market for residential battery storage grew by an estimated 55% in 2022 from the previous year, according to SunWiz.

Green Investment Group (GIG) and Shell Energy have announced a 200MW/400MWh battery storage project in Victoria, Australia.

Sembcorp has pulled the plug on Indonesia solar-plus-storage project, shortly after completing Southeast Asia’s biggest battery storage project.

National science agency CSIRO has said Australia needs multiple energy storage technologies at massive scale to achieve its transition.

Adopting an “agile working method” without taking any shortcuts on safety or other standards was crucial to DNV testing and certifying a 200MW battery project in Singapore in “record time”.

Battery storage projects at least 1GWh of capacity have been proposed or progressed in Australia by companies Synergy, SkyLab and the Queensland government.

The government of New Zealand considering viability of pumped hydro among its options to plug energy deficits of between 3TWh and 5TWh.

Australian Vanadium has secured a site and progressed the design and development of a flow battery electrolyte facility in Western Australia.