Another edition of our BESS Industry Buzz, this week looking at new details on CATL’s sodium-ion technology, BESS availability, BAAJA trade-offs and the price of speed to power.

West Arthur Energy, a project company owned by Western Australian developer Lacour Energy, has referred a wind generation site with a 4,000MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to Australia’s EPBC Act.

AirTrunk has signed an exclusivity agreement with European Energy Australia covering more than 800MWh of battery storage in NSW.

Alinta Energy’s 100MW/200MWh BESS at its Wagerup thermal power plant in Western Australia has been operating commercially since September.

EnergyAustralia has paid AU$750,000 (US$519,300) in penalties after the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) alleged that four battery energy storage systems (BESS) it manages failed to deliver frequency services offered into the market.

Delta and partner Samsung Vista C&I Australia have lodged an EIS for an 800MWh BESS at the Vales Point Power Station site in NSW.

The Western Australian (WA) government has awarded AU$15 million for a relocatable vanadium electrolyte manufacturing facility.

Two Australian BESS projects in South Australia and Victoria have been submitted to the federal government under the EPBC Act.

Australia’s federal Cheaper Home Batteries Program has passed 600,000 home battery storage systems sold, roughly 16.8GWh.

Energy held in battery energy storage systems (BESS) across Australia’s NEM reached a record 20.17GWh on 6 November.