Battery

As Renew Economy wrote on Thursday, the size of big battery projects in Australia is getting bigger and bigger. Those that are being proposed now are one hundred times bigger, in terms of storage capacity, than the country’s first big…

Danish wind energy giant Vestas is seeking approval to build a massive, 2,500 megawatt (2.5GW) wind farm in southern New South Wales that would combine up to 348 turbines and two four-hour big batteries, each with up to 500 megawatts (MW)…

Construction is underway on a 150 megawatt, two-hour big battery near Port Pirie in South Australia, in the first stage of a proposed $2 billion series of solar and storage projects being built in the region by Canadian renewables developer…

A new household energy survey suggests 68% of home and property owners would spend up to $10,000 on rooftop solar and residential battery installation costs if it meant they could save $2,000 a year on bills. October 7, 2024 Ev FoleyResults…

Queensland government-owned Stanwell Corporation is seeking to buy the full output from the final stage of the massive Supernode battery energy storage project near Brisbane, as it builds a firmed renewable energy portfolio to replace its…

Construction of the 200MW/400MWh Greenbank Battery project in Logan, south east Queensland, is “powering ahead” according to developer CS Energy, with all 108 Tesla Megapack 2XL units recently delivered on site. Queensland government owned…

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…

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…

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)…

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…