The 1,680MWh Waratah Super Battery, which completed its energisation in early September, was called upon yesterday (27 November) to prevent widespread blackouts in New South Wales, Australia.
We hear from S&P Global Commodity Insights analysts and a former Fluence executive about the major trends shaping the competitive landscape of system integrators in the BESS industry.
Battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Fluence will use its AI-powered bidding optimisation software Mosaic for 3.64GWh of Akaysha Energy BESS in Australia.
Victoria’s State Electricity Commission (SEC) and developers Wirsol and Edify Energy have seen a collective 1.4GWh of solar-plus-storage projects progress this week in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia.
Australian utility Origin Energy has officially approved the third stage of its Eraring battery energy storage system (BESS), bringing its facility in New South Wales to 2,800MWh.
With the opening of the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) tender 3 in Australia last Wednesday (13 November), one major question from the state allocations presented in the market briefing was why Queensland had been granted no capacity.
Whitehaven Energy, a subsidiary of coal producer Whitehaven Coal and renewable energy generator and retailer Pacific Blue, landed key milestones in developing solar-plus-storage projects in Australia last week.
Progress on another US Department of Energy (DOE) loan for the battery sector has been announced, this time by NeoVolta, the third in the space of a week since the US election.
A double-header of tax equity news from the California BESS market, with IPPs Ormat Technologies and esVolta both completing deals for grid-scale projects in the state.
