Battery energy storage projects have emerged as the dominant force in Australia’s energy investment landscape, accounting for 46% of the nation’s 64GW development pipeline, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) latest quarterly report.
Bigger, longer-duration projects and more sophisticated deal structuring are driving the energy storage industry forward, but a lack of common approaches from transmission system operators (TSOs) remains a challenge.
The managing director of Bluestar Energy Capital’s European BESS platform Noveria Energy gave a Q&A to Energy-Storage.news ahead of the Energy Storage Summit 2026 in London next month.
The government of Spain has chosen the 143 energy storage projects that will receive capex support from an EU-backed scheme, totalling nearly 9GWh of capacity.
From August 2026, energy storage projects in France will benefit from changes to grid tariffs designed to encourage them to support the grid at specific times of the day.
Battery storage capacity in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) expanded by 2,936MW/6,482MWh over the 12 months leading to the end of Q3 2025.
Publicly-owned energy company CleanCo Queensland’s 250MW/500MWh Swanbank battery energy storage system (BESS) has officially registered with AEMO and commenced its testing and commissioning phase.
Victoria has become the first state in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) to achieve more than 1GW of simultaneous battery storage charging.
“Australia is one of the leading countries for grid-forming inverters,” said Natalie Thompson, senior analyst of energy storage and solar at Wood Mackenzie, when discussing the Australian energy storage market.
