Australia runs a great risk of failing to meet its ambitious but achievable renewable energy goals, writes Stephanie Bashir, CEO of Nexa Advisory, who explains why utility-scale energy storage is among the crucial tools in the country’s energy transition toolkit.

Following wins at the Energy Storage Awards 2023, Dr Ben Irons of Habitat Energy and Andrew Gilligan of Fluence take part in our end of year Q&A series.

A 100MW battery storage project in the UK connected to National Grid’s transmission network has gone online, developed by Pacific Green on the former site of a coal plant.

Fluence has launched a battery storage solution aimed at the market for energy storage as a transmission asset, called ‘Ultrastack’.

India has committed to helping fund 4,000MWh of battery storage in its Union Budget and will come up with support mechanisms for pumped hydro.

French renewable energy company Neoen has kicked off 200MW/400MWh battery project in Australia, its third under construction in the country.

A plan proposed by US president Joe Biden to invest US$2 trillion in infrastructure has been praised for “prioritising energy storage and policies that support the industry’s growth”.

Latest attempt to draft FiT rates comes under fire for absence of energy storage in its remit.

The World Bank’s groundbreaking US$1 billion loan for Indian solar will partly focus on improving transmission for solar parks and innovation in wind and energy storage hybrids, according to a senior government official.

An ‘electricity trading’ scheme to be launched by Reposit Power in Australia for residential energy storage system owners has been described by an analyst as “one of the most interesting examples” of software as a differentiator in the energy storage marketplace.