Storage

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Australian clean energy technology companies Vast Renewables and 1414 Degrees say they entered into negotiations to gain access to transmission lines to connect their planned big battery and solar thermal projects. Vast, a developer of…

Energy utility EnergyAustralia says both of its proposed four-hour big battery projects are hoping to secure funding from the federal government’s Capacity Investment Schemes as it seeks to restore its fortunes after a major write down in…

British solar and storage developer Elgin Energy says it has secured development approval for another solar and battery project in Australia, this time in Victoria. It announced on its LinkedIn profile that it had secured development…