Africa’s energy storage market has seen a boom since 2017, having risen from 31MWh to 1,600MWh in 2024, according to trade body AFSIA Solar’s latest report.
Lumea, the commercial arm of Australian transmission system operator Transgrid, has commenced grid works to connect the 1.6GWh Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub (MREH) in Victoria, Australia.
The Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) in New South Wales, Australia, has increased in size, now allowing 7.7GW of renewable energy generation and energy storage capacity to connect to it.
Chinese multinational renewable energy solutions provider Envision Energy will supply a 320MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to Juniper Green Energy in India.
Western Australia and Victoria’s AusNet have provided financial aid to support battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the energy transition and community energy resiliency.
Chinese battery manufacturer Hithium and Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction (Samsung C&T) have penned a new agreement targeting around 10GWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity globally.
Global solar developer Lightsource bp and Acen Australia have seen each of their respective solar-plus-storage projects in New South Wales, Australia, totalling 550MW of generation capacity, progress.
Western Australia’s Economic Regulation Authority has set the peak and flexible benchmark reserve capacity prices (BRCPs) at AU$360,700/MW (US$224,898/MW) annually from 2027-28.
