A new 200kW/284kWh community battery energy storage system (BESS) has been switched on in Cammeray, a suburb of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, Australia.
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.
Finnish telecoms firm Elisa will manage the charging activity of a 100MWh ‘Sand Battery’ project, optimising its activity in the country’s electricity reserve market.
Chinese multinational renewable energy solutions provider Envision Energy will supply a 320MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to Juniper Green Energy in India.
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.
At the end of 2024, Australian renewable energy developer ZEN Energy, in partnership with Taiwan’s HD Renewable Energy (HDRE), announced plans to establish a joint venture in Australia that will target 1GW of energy storage capacity.
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.
Western Australia’s Altech Batteries has inked an offtake agreement to supply the Western defence market with its CERENERGY battery energy storage system (BESS) technology.
Solar PV developer Lightsource bp has started construction on two solar-plus-storage projects in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, following success in the first tender of the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS).
