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The massive new projects propelling South Australia towards 100 per cent net renewables
The season of renewable records has begun early in Australia, sending average coal power down below 50 per cent for the first time, establishing new records for wind output, and sending demand to new lows across the main grid. The state at…
Huge solar farm and eight hour battery project approved for upper Hunter
The New South Wales government has given planning approval for a 450MW solar farm in the state’s Upper Hunter Region that will be combined with an eight-hour battery, one of the largest of its type in the world. The Goulburn River solar…
Australian battery maker opens first facility in Victoria, lands federal funds for expansion
The federal Labor government has kicked in $1.7 million so Australia battery maker Li-S Energy can build the next stage of its Geelong factory, a lithium foil manufacturing division. Li-S Energy has built a 2 megawatt hour (MWh)…
“You have to be creative:” Why Australia’s most successful grid-scale battery developer reinvents…
One of the most fascinating parts of the green energy transition – and in recent years the most uplifting – has been the rapid growth in the battery storage sector, and how bit by bit the best developers have slowly unfurled the multiple…
First stage of Australia’s biggest battery project energised to start flattening solar duck
The first stage of what will be Australia’s biggest battery project has been energised – little more than a year after securing its development contract – and will soon be in operation to help flatten the growing solar duck in Western…
“Missing link:” More than 420 neighbourhood batteries approved to boost and share rooftop solar
More than 420 community or “neighbourhood” batteries have been approved by the federal government and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) in a move it says will boost the capacity of local networks to absorb the huge growth in…
Australia’s biggest solar and battery hybrid project planned at site of abandoned “dud” coal mine
The development rights to what will surely be biggest co-located solar and battery storage hybrid projects in Australia’s main grid have been bought by Pacific Partnerships, part of the listed engineering and construction company Cimic. The…
First solar and storage project on Australia’s main grid to be sold
Off-grid energy specialist MPower says it is kicking off a sales process for Lakeland solar and battery project in Queensland, just two years after buying the first utility-scale solar and battery project to be built on Australia’s main…
Ausgrid installs third solar-soaking community battery backed by federal funding
Ausgrid has switched on a rooftop solar-soaking community battery in the Sydney suburb of North Epping, the distribution network company’s third such project to be installed with the help of federal government funding. The 250kW/535kWh…
AGL jumps after earnings boost from coal power and new big battery
Australia’s biggest generator of coal-fired power AGL Energy has enjoyed a bump in its share price after revealing a big jump in its expected earnings for the financial year. The profit upgrade is the second announced by the company in the…