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Major BESS projects internationally, including the Victorian Big Battery in Australia (pictured) and Zenobe's upcoming project in Scotland are providing inertia via their inverters. Image: Victoria State government.

Australia’s capacity mechanism ‘shouldn’t lock in reliance on aging and polluting generators’

June 22, 2022
A capacity mechanism for Australia’s National Electricity Market needs to catalyse investment in renewable energy and energy storage.
Artist's concept drawings of how VSUN's residential flow battery could look. Image: VSUN.

Australian projects trial benefits of distributed neighbourhood and flow battery energy storage

June 21, 2022
The government of Victoria, Australia, has opened a round of funding for ‘neighbourhood-scale’ battery storage.
1414 Degrees early concept art for the Aurora project. Image: 1414 Degrees.

Australia large-scale hybrid CSP-battery-PV project revived after pull-out of investors

June 17, 2022
Novel project in development in Australia combining CSP, molten silicon thermal storage, solar PV and grid-scale BESS appears to be revived.
Muja coal power plant is scheduled for phased retirement by the end of 2029. Image: Wikimedia user nachoman-au

Western Australia invests A$3.8 billion to manage coal to renewables-plus-storage transition

June 17, 2022
Western Australia will retire its two state-owned coal power plants by 2030 and invest in renewable energy and energy storage.
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Edify Energy secures project financing for 300MWh BESS in NSW, Australia

June 14, 2022
Australian renewable energy developer Edify Energy has secured project financing for three battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in New South Wales totalling 150MW/300MWh.
Queensland's Wivenhoe PHES plant, which has been in operation since 1985. Image: Queensland State Archives via Flickr / Public Domain.

Queensland puts A$48 million into studies for potential large-scale pumped hydro sites

June 13, 2022
Australia’s first new large-scale pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant in nearly 40 years is being built in Queensland and the state’s government is now exploring options for more.
Rendering of a New South Wales battery storage project currently under construction through Shell and state-owned energy developer Edify Energy. Image: Edify.

‘Super Battery’ first to benefit from New South Wales government’s A$1.2 billion spending pledge

June 10, 2022
New South Wales’s single biggest ever investment in infrastructure will go towards enabling renewable energy additions across its networks.
Black coal, the closest competitor to battery storage, will be all but off the system by the mid to late 2030s. Image: Flickr user John Englart.

After the Climate Wars: Why does Australia need an electricity storage target?

June 8, 2022
How a deployment target scheme could transform the economics of storage in Australia and help the government fulfil its promises to voters.
Anthony Albanese (pictured) and the Labor Party have taken on board the need for storage in making clean energy dispatchable, Dr Bruce Mountain said. Image: Anthony Albanese's office via Twitter.

Australia’s new government ‘should consider Renewable Electricity Storage Target policy’

May 31, 2022
An energy storage target policy could be an effective way for Australia’s new government to follow through on decarbonisation promises.
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Data availability and resource planning challenges for grid operators as more energy storage comes online

May 26, 2022
Alongside its many benefits, growing deployments of energy storage will pose complex challenges around availability of data and resource planning for grid and distribution network operators.

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