Developer Akaysha Energy has confirmed that the 850MW Waratah Super Battery will undergo a planned balance of plant shutdown from 20 November to 2 December 2025.

Swedish renewable energy developer OX2 has formally taken ownership of the 1.2GW Dinner Hill Wind Farm and the co-located 400MWh Harvest Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Western Australia.

Rondo Energy and SCG Cleanergy have commenced operation of Southeast Asia’s first industrial thermal battery energy storage system (BESS) at SCG’s cement plant in Saraburi, Thailand.

Australia’s DCCEEW has announced that the Capacity Investment Scheme Tender 8 will launch later this month seeking 16GWh of energy storage.

On 4 September, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with multiple other law enforcement organisations, raided Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution’s electric vehicle (EV) battery cell plant in Ellabell, Georgia, US.

Octopus Australia has achieved financial close on a AU$900 million (US$587 million) DC-coupled hybrid facility that combines 300MW of solar generation with a 243MW/486MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in New South Wales.

Ampyr Australia has acquired the 270MW Davenport battery energy storage system (BESS) in South Australia from Green Gold Energy (GGE), renaming the facility the ‘Northern Battery’.

Three large-scale BESS with a combined capacity of 720MW have been submitted for federal assessment under Australia’s EPBC Act.

Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) and EDP Renewables Australia have signed an exclusivity agreement to develop the Punchs Creek Renewable Energy Project, a 1,600MWh solar-plus-storage project in Queensland’s Toowoomba region.

Australia’s Waratah Super Battery has been hit with a “catastrophic” failure at one of its transformers, reducing the project’s capacity.