Covenergo and Delta Capacity have begun construction on AKKU One, a standalone 125MW/300MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Lapinlahti, Finland, with commissioning targeted for the fourth quarter of 2027.

Alinta Energy has received the first shipment of battery units for its 250MW Reeves Plains Battery project in South Australia.

DC-coupled solar-plus-storage projects can reduce the time needed for grid connection approval compared with AC-coupled designs.

ESN Premium speaks with Fluence’s Jeff Monday and Sam Markham on the opportunity battery energy storage could provide data centres in Australia.

Large data centres should serve as “anchor tenants” for new renewable energy generation, storage, and transmission investment, leveraging the scale and longevity of digital infrastructure commitments to advance energy projects rather than waiting for supply to arrive.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that large-scale data centres will be legally required to put at least as much energy into the grid as they draw from it, and that this supply must be renewable energy.

Australia’s federal government has added 11 new generation and energy storage projects to its National Renewable Energy Priority List.

Australia’s New South Wales has seen 532MW of firming projects contracted through its seventh infrastructure tender, securing two projects designed to strengthen electricity supply during periods of peak demand and system stress in the Sydney-Newcastle-Wollongong region.

Two battery energy storage systems (BESS) in South Australia and Queensland have received federal environmental clearance under the EPBC Act.

Fluence’s chief growth officer, Jeff Monday, and Australia strategy lead, Sam Markham, discuss hyperscale opportunities, grid-forming evolution, and the company’s high-density Smartstack deployment plans.