What has been described as the largest battery storage project to date in the state of New South Wales, Australia, has been brought online by Edify Energy.

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

National science agency CSIRO has said Australia needs multiple energy storage technologies at massive scale to achieve its transition.

Australia has an “urgent need” for long-duration energy storage, along with new generation resources and transmission infrastructure.

Australian energy ministers’ agreement to tender for renewable energy and energy storage is a “major breakthrough in federal policy”.

Approval granted in Australia for the first battery storage project to share grid connection point with an existing generation asset in National Electricity Market.

Development of battery systems to help integrate renewables and boost grid reliability continues to pick up pace in New South Wales.

Powin Energy has entered a partnership with developer Akaysha Energy to deploy battery storage systems in Australia.

A real estate and infrastructure investment arm of BlackRock has committed to investing US$700 million into Akaysha Energy’s pipeline.