South Australian electricity distributor SA Power Networks is set to develop a portfolio of community batteries to help support distributed energy resources and electric vehicle (EV) charging capabilities.
Australia’s Energy Queensland, a government-owned distribution system operator, has partnered with cloud-based battery analytics provider ACCURE Battery Intelligence to monitor two 8MWh batteries in Queensland.
European lithium-ion OEM Northvolt has sold the division in which its ESS manufacturing plant in Poland sits, as it continues to divest non-core assets amidst its ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Community batteries are likely to become another tool in a decentralised energy grid, write Lachlan Hensey and Timothy Shue from Australia’s Yarra Energy Foundation.
Essential Energy, a state-owned electricity infrastructure company, has switched on three community batteries in the New South Wales towns of Maloneys Beach, Leeton and Goulburn in Australia.