The multi-gigawatt proving ground: Australia’s ESS market - Energy-Storage.News
“The projects in Australia are at a scale that is not seen anywhere else in the world,” Wärtsilä's Andy Tang tells Energy-Storage.news| Energy-Storage.News
“The projects in Australia are at a scale that is not seen anywhere else in the world,” Wärtsilä's Andy Tang tells Energy-Storage.news| Energy-Storage.News
Green Investment Group (GIG) and Shell Energy have announced a 200MW/400MWh battery storage project in Victoria, Australia.| Energy-Storage.News
The nascent grid-scale energy storage market in Japan now has its first-ever dedicated investment fund, to be jointly managed by Gore Street.| Energy-Storage.News
Eku Energy has seen its development application for a 250MW/500MWh BESS in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), approved.| Energy-Storage.News
Japan is one of the most talked-about emerging grid-scale BESS markets in Asia and featured prominently at the Energy Storage Summit Asia.| Energy-Storage.News
Over a gigawatt of bids from battery storage have succeeded in Japan's first-ever competitive auctions for low-carbon energy capacity.| Energy-Storage.News
Milestone reached in utility-scale battery storage market development in Japan, with Pacifico Energy trading energy from two new projects.| Energy-Storage.News
BESS integrator Fluence will use its AI-powered bidding optimisation software Mosaic for 3.64GWh of Akaysha Energy BESS in Australia.| Energy-Storage.News
Quinbrook has officially confirmed the expansion of the ‘Supernode’ BESS in Queensland, Australia, via a 1,010MWh offtake agreement.| Energy-Storage.News
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners portfolio company will begin construction on 250MW/500MWh battery storage system in Queensland, Australia.| Energy-Storage.News
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has secured AU$722 million in debt financing for two stages of its ‘Supernode' site in Queensland.| Energy-Storage.News
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has announced a new 8-hour duration BESS set for the Australian market as part of a collaboration with CATL.| Energy-Storage.News
Fluence has penned its largest battery energy storage system deal globally for a 2,000MWh battery storage project owned by Australia’s AGL.| Energy-Storage.News
Innergex Renewable Energy has started operating a 35MW/175MWh BESS in Chile, its second large-scale BESS in the country.| Energy-Storage.News
Developer Innergex has inaugurated a 50MW/250MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at a solar PV plant in Chile.| Energy-Storage.News
Innergex and Prevalon Energy have agreed to nearly double the capacity of two BESS projects the pair recently commissioned in Chile.| Energy-Storage.News
A panel discussed the impact of CAISO’s interconnection reforms at last month’s Energy Storage Summit USA 2025 in Dallas.| Energy-Storage.News
Changes to the CAISO interconnection process have been approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).| Energy-Storage.News
A public consultation regarding the auction will be launched in the coming days, while capacity and funding details have yet to be disclosed.| Energy-Storage.News
ESN Premium speaks with Thomas Cornell of Prevalon, at RE+ 2025 about the global consequences of the budget reconciliation bill for BESS.| Energy-Storage.News
Hornsdale Power Reserve battery storage system in South Australia now has upgraded capabilities, enabling it to provide inertia to the grid.| Energy-Storage.News
AGL Energy has confirmed that two transformers for the 1,000MWh Liddell BESS in New South Wales have been delivered.| Energy-Storage.News
Stanwell has confirmed the arrival of Tesla Megapack 2XL units at its 1,200MWh BESS at Stanwell Power Station in Queensland.| Energy-Storage.News
The first 350MW/700MWh of the Waratah Super Battery in New South Wales, Australia, has officially come online.| Energy-Storage.News
AEMO has published its 2024 ISP providing an updated 30-year roadmap for the transition of the National Electricity Market (NEM).| Energy-Storage.News
Rept Battero has announced plans to develop an 8GWh gigafactory in Indonesia specialising in lithium-ion cells for BESS.| Energy-Storage.News
Indonesia Battery Corporation exploring cell manufacturing and battery storage integration with engineering company Citaglobal.| Energy-Storage.News
Zinc hybrid cathode battery and storage system maker Eos Energy has received its second loan advance from the US DOE’s LPO.| Energy-Storage.News
Hithium has opened a 10GWh battery module and system factory in Texas, while LG Energy Solution has begun mass-producing cells in Michigan.| Energy-Storage.News
EU will not meet its 2030 clean energy targets unless cumulative battery storage deployments rapidly accelerate, SolarPower Europe has said.| Energy-Storage.News
EU transition to renewable energy will fail unless it does more to support and promote energy storage, Energy Storage Coalition says.| Energy-Storage.News
Ahead of a merger between the Energy Storage Association and American Clean Power Association, Energy-Storage.news speaks to the leaders of both.| Energy-Storage.News
More than 30 stakeholder organisations in the US energy storage value chain have formed a new association to represent common interests.| Energy-Storage.News
AES Andes, part of AES Corporation, plans to convert a 560MW coal plant in Chile into a molten salt-based energy storage plant.| Energy-Storage.News
Hydrostor has received planning approval for a 200MW/1,600MWh A-CAES project in New South Wales, Australia.| Energy-Storage.News
Ontario-headquartered Hydrostor has secured a US$200 million investment for its (A-CAES projects both in Canada and globally.| Energy-Storage.News
Advanced compressed air energy storage company Hydrostor has signed PPA for one of its flagship large-scale projects in California.| Energy-Storage.News
Quinbrook completes the 560MWh first stage of the Supernode BESS in Australia| Energy-Storage.News
Samsung C&T has submitted plans for a 100MW/400MWh BESS to Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.| Energy-Storage.News
Samsung C&T Renewable Energy Australia has submitted plans for a 320MWh battery storage system in New South Wales to Australia’s EPBC Act.| Energy-Storage.News
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has completed construction on the first stage of its Supernode BESS in Queensland, Australia.| Energy-Storage.News
Australian energy major AGL has seen its 1,000MWh Liddell BESS in New South Wales (NSW) enter AEMO's Market Management System.| Energy-Storage.News
Australia's NEM has achieved multiple BESS records, highlighted by total storage capacity reaching 6.5GWh for the first time.| Energy-Storage.News
Samsung C&T Renewable Energy Australia has submitted plans for a 300MWh solar-plus-storage project in Queensland to Australia’s EPBC Act.| Energy-Storage.News
The Queensland government has announced plans to release a five-year Energy Roadmap and transferred oversight of a 20GWh PHES project.| Energy-Storage.News
Queensland has pulled the plug on what would have been the world’s largest pumped hydro energy storage project (PHES).| Energy-Storage.News
Queensland premier Steven Miles unveiled plans to allocate a record AU$26 billion (US$17 billion) to the state’s Energy and Jobs Plan.| Energy-Storage.News
The Queensland government is set for crunch talks with Queensland Hydro to “save” the 2GW/48GWh Borumba PHES project.| Energy-Storage.News
Victoria has become the first state in Australia's NEM to achieve more than 1GW of simultaneous battery storage charging.| Energy-Storage.News
The Australian government has granted approval for the 1.4GWh Garoo solar-plus-storage project being pursued by Jinko Power Australia.| Energy-Storage.News
RWE Renewables Australia has successfully registered Australia's first 8-hour duration BESS with the Australian Energy Market Operator.| Energy-Storage.News
The Queensland government has invested AU$48 million to overhaul the ageing 5.7GWh Wivenhoe Pumped Hydro Power Station in Australia.| Energy-Storage.News
Uncertainty over trade tariffs has caused Fluence to lower its revenue and EBITDA guidance although CEO said company is optimistic long-term.| Energy-Storage.News
Someva Renewables and AGL Energy have received the federal greenlight to develop a 2GWh wind-plus-storage project in NSW, Australia.| Energy-Storage.News
Sungrow, SUNOTEC focus on Bulgaria with 2.4GWh BESS supply agreement| Energy-Storage.News
BESS has won big in the Poland capacity market (CM) auction for 2029 delivery, with potentially around 2.5GW of projects winning contracts.| Energy-Storage.News
The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act increased the importance of domestic clean energy manufacturing, bringing in new tax credits.| Energy-Storage.News
Trina Storage has partnered with system integrator FlexGen on a 371MWh BESS project for developer SMT Energy in Houston, Texas, US.| Energy-Storage.News
Two North American companies, Powin and Li-Cycle, were recently acquired by FlexGen and Glencore, respectively, after announcing bankruptcy.| Energy-Storage.News
Fluence has taken a step forward in its strategy to “fully onshore production, as quickly as possible,” opening a new factory in the US.| Energy-Storage.News
Executives from BESS firm Fluence discussed the company's recent third quarter results in an earnings call with analysts.| Energy-Storage.News
BESS integrators Fluence and Saft have launched US domestic manufacturing, of modules and BESS containers respectively.| Energy-Storage.News
A news roundup focusing on Q1 financial results from Eos and Ormat with news of a rebrand from Hecate Grid, now Fullmark Energy.| Energy-Storage.News
California and Texas have been “really good proving grounds” for energy storage, according to the CEO of developer Fullmark Energy.| Energy-Storage.News
Investors and utilities have inaugurated a BESS project in Germany, deployed by Fluence and its parent company Siemens Energy.| Energy-Storage.News
Green flexibility is a BESS platform in Germany whose management team is largely made up of executives from home energy and VPP firm sonnen.| Energy-Storage.News
A flurry of battery energy storage system (BESS) project deployment news in Germany from re.venture, Green Flexibility, EWE and Terra One.| Energy-Storage.News
Hydrostor has secured US$55 million in funding from Export Development Canada (EDC) to advance its 1,600MWh A-CAES project in Australia.| Energy-Storage.News
Australia's Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) has awarded 4.13GW/15.37GWh of energy storage capacity in its third tender round.| Energy-Storage.News
Sungrow has inked an agreement with CREC to supply 1.5GWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the Philippines.| Energy-Storage.News
It is “vital” that energy storage systems are incorporated into the energy infrastructure of the Philippines, president has said.| Energy-Storage.News
Philippines President Ferdinand ‘Bong Bong’ Marcos Jr attended inauguration of country’s first lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery factory.| Energy-Storage.News
Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos Jr visited the world’s largest combined solar PV and battery storage plant as construction began.| Energy-Storage.News
The first ever solar-plus-storage hybrid resources system in the Philippines is now in operation after energy company AC Energy (ACEN) switched on the site’s battery energy storage system (BESS).| Energy-Storage.News
President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., inaugurated the country’s first 'baseload' plant to combine solar PV and battery storage.| Energy-Storage.News
Listing via the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is emerging as a key financing pathway for China's energy storage players, writes Carrie Xiao.| Energy-Storage.News
Wood Mackenzie's BESS supply rankings list shows 'intensifying regional competition and shifting dynamics' as Tesla remains number one.| Energy-Storage.News
US energy storage market ‘getting used to policy uncertainty’| Energy-Storage.News
Lithium prices and battery supply chain are becoming manageable, but lead times for transformers and other equipment have greatly extended.| Energy-Storage.News
Illinois State Senator Bill Cunningham has passed legislation to amplify energy storage in the Midwest state.| Energy-Storage.News
Fluence and ACE Engineering have opened a new automated battery storage manufacturing facility in Vietnam's Bac Giang Province.| Energy-Storage.News
Fluence expects to hit lower end of revenue guidance for the 2025 financial year due to delays in ramping up at US production sites.| Energy-Storage.News
ESN Premium speaks with BoxPower’s Director of Business Development, Fallon Vaughan and Noa Schachtel, about the company’s microgrids.| Energy-Storage.News
The US energy storage industry is becoming better equipped to handle the policy uncertainty which has characterised the year so far.| Energy-Storage.News
With RE+ at Las Vegas this week, here are some announcements to have hit the Energy-Storage.news desk ahead of the event.| Energy-Storage.News
ESN Premium speaks with Chris McKissack of Fullmark Energy on issues affecting the US market and the company’s business model transition.| Energy-Storage.News
Energy-Storage.news discusses integrating microgrids with sustainable building design with Karina Hershberg, at engineering firm PAE.| Energy-Storage.News
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Neoen has started full commercial operations at its Bulgana Green Power Hub in the state of Victoria, Australia, which includes a 20MW / 34MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) paired with a 204MW wind farm.| Energy-Storage.News
Brookfield intends to acquire French renewables and energy storage developer and independent power producer (IPP) Neoen.| Energy-Storage.News
Brookfield will be required to divest Neoen’s operational assets in Victoria, Australia, including the 350MW/450MWh Victoria Big Battery.| Energy-Storage.News
Chile is leading Latin America’s wave of energy storage adoption, closely linked to its embrace of solar PV.| Energy-Storage.News
Another edition of news in brief from the UK with pledges to improve battery 'skip rates' and a 1GW project gets local authority approval.| Energy-Storage.News
Trina Storage to provide 65MWh BESS for Romania project| Energy-Storage.News
Vertically integrated cell-BESS suppliers lose market share as competition increases| Energy-Storage.News
This Friday Briefing is largely concerned with the UK's low revenues for battery storage and how the market may move forward.| Energy-Storage.News
Construction has begun on a facility which will make electrolyte for vanadium flow batteries in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, by vertically-integrated vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals.| Energy-Storage.News
Samantha McGahan of Australian Vanadium on the electrolyte, which is the single most important material for making vanadium flow batteries.| Energy-Storage.News
The Premier of Queensland today announced a major transmission line project to unlock 6GW of renewable energy.| Energy-Storage.News
Andy Colthorpe speaks to Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, one of the original inventors of the vanadium redox flow battery, about the origins of the technology and its progression.| Energy-Storage.News
