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.

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

Genex Power has bought up a 2GW clean energy project which it intends to build in five stages in Queensland, Australia.

Quinbrook developing A$2.5 billion ‘Supernode’ site in Queensland for storing energy and data that would include 2,000MWh of battery storage.

A capacity mechanism for Australia’s National Electricity Market needs to catalyse investment in renewable energy and energy storage.

The government of Victoria, Australia, has opened a round of funding for ‘neighbourhood-scale’ battery storage.

Western Australia will retire its two state-owned coal power plants by 2030 and invest in renewable energy and energy storage.

Australia’s first new large-scale pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant in nearly 40 years is being built in Queensland and the state’s government is now exploring options for more.