Lava Blue commissions Australia’s first grid-connected sodium-sulfur BESS, while ZEBRE’s 360MWh Noblevale BESS clears EPBC review.

Eku Energy’s Elias Saba discusses why he believes the CIS has not fundamentally changed the company’s investment approach.

The venture-capital-style returns once available in Australia have disappeared, according to panellists at the Battery Asset Management Summit Australia 2026.

In this interview with ESN Premium, Sahand Karimi of OptiGrid discusses how BESS warranties and constraint management shape trading behaviour.

Australia’s 58 grid-scale battery storage systems in the NEM generated a combined AU$28.79 million in estimated gross energy and FCAS revenue.

Octopus Australia has referred the Blackstone battery energy storage system (BESS), a 500MW/2,000MWh standalone facility, to Australia’s federal government for assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

EDF Power Solutions Australia has referred the Wala Wala Pumped Hydro Energy Storage project, a 300-400MW facility in NSW.

Copper theft has become a recurring security issue at Australian battery storage sites, with one regulator reporting multiple incidents.

OptiGrid has been selected by Vena Energy to provide trading optimisation services for the 408MW Bellambi Heights BESS in Australia.

Energy Vault has completed the acquisition of the underlying project land for its 125MW/1,000MWh Stoney Creek battery energy storage system (BESS) in northern New South Wales, Australia.