The Australian government is funding grid inertia measurement trial at the Victorian Big Battery, aiming to develop real-time, accurate assessments of the status of the network.

Work is set to begin “within weeks” on a BESS project at the site of a coal power plant in New South Wales, Australia.

Alongside unveiling of an energy storage deployment target, Victoria government announced funding for large-scale battery storage projects.

Blair Reynolds, SMA America’s product manager for energy storage, discusses the role inverter-based renewable and storage technologies can play in maintaining grid stability.