Exclusivity deal signed for massive gas and energy storage hub that promises to host Australia's biggest eight-hour battery, sized at more than 6,000 MWh.
A new 1.5 gigawatt project, backed and hosted by local farmers who held a tender for the facility, has hit the EPBC queue with a big battery in tow.
A 400 MW peaking gas project, already delayed by two years, needed revenue guarantees from state owned utility.
New data centres will be expected to bring their own renewable and battery supply, and AEMO says they must follow strict rules that will help the grid, not break it.
Wind and solar meet all of “net demand” in W.A., host of world’s biggest isolated grid, as growing fleet of big batteries give market operator room to keep its thermals on.
Federal energy minister confirms talks to keep Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter afloat with supply of firmed renewables, potentially backed by Snowy and CEFC.
Gas power's business model is disappearing. Solar has cut into daytime operation. Batteries are starting to take the rest. And that's bad news for Australian LNG.
The first of more than 800 new transmission towers for what is - for now - Australia's most expensive transmission line have been erected.
Big battery dispatch overtook peaking gas generators for the first time on the main grid in November, and will rapidly grow to be the dominance player in the market.
A company headed up by one of the legends of Australian solar R&D has won Solar Sunshot funding to build a PV panel manufacturing plant in a former coal hub.
Justice and Equity Centre's Craig Memery warns renters, shift workers and anyone who can’t move their energy use to the middle of the day could end up subsidising those who can.
FRV has successfully energised its first big battery project in Australia, ahead of completing construction and kicking off the commissioning phase.