ESN Premium speaks with Fluence’s Jeff Monday and Sam Markham on the opportunity battery energy storage could provide data centres in Australia.

There can be great value in co-location, but the operational reality is not as simple as it may sound, writes Daniel Moore-Oats of Arenko.

Australia’s NEM connected 9.1GW of new generation and energy storage to full output in FY26, more than double the result achieved in FY25.

Australia’s 55 grid-scale BESS generated a combined AU$17.98 million in estimated gross energy and FCAS market revenue during June 2026.

OptiGrid’s Sahand Karimi examines why state of charge & algorithm quality drove divergent outcomes during SA1’s AU$20,300/MWh price cap on 21 June.

AEMO has set out a storage requirement of almost 50GW in its latest 2026 Integrated System Plan (ISP), split between 35GW of short and medium-duration battery storage for daily firming and 5GW of long-duration energy storage (LDES) for seasonal reliability.

Around 4.9GW/14.6GWh of large-scale BESS came online in May, with a much more balanced regional breakdown than usual.

BESS fund manager Gore Street Capital’s director of asset management Daniel Sherlock-Burke recently discussed the work it is doing around capturing and making use of its huge quantities of operational data.

The early life of a battery storage asset sets the stage for a lifetime of operational success, writes Cedric Brehaut, chief product officer at PowerUp.

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