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.

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.

How a deployment target scheme could transform the economics of storage in Australia and help the government fulfil its promises to voters.