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Rendering of how another AGL battery storage facility, at Torrens Island in South Australia, will look when completed. Construction began in November 2021 with Wärtsilä providing BESS technology. Image: AGL.

Australian utility AGL’s 2GWh battery project at coal power plant site gets approval

March 21, 2022
Australia’s biggest utility company looks set to be in ownership of the country’s biggest battery storage facility.
Flow battery demonstration plant in Hubei, China, where the world's biggest VRFB system, at 100MW/400MWh, went online recently. Image: VRB Energy.

Australia’s lithium, vanadium battery value chain gets share of AU$243m government funding

March 17, 2022
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced financial support for four technology sector manufacturing projects, including a vanadium processing plant.
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Pension fund invests in Octopus-developed 1.5GW clean energy park to replace Australian coal plant

March 17, 2022
Australian pension fund Hostplus will invest in a JV to build a 1.5GW renewable energy park.
Gransolar's E22 provides lithium-ion and vanadium flow battery-based energy storage. Image: E22.

Gransolar’s first BESS project in Australia will be optimised by Fluence software

March 15, 2022
Fluence’s software will be used at the first battery storage project in Australia by Spain’s Gransolar Group. 
Inauguration of a 1MW Tesla Powerpack project in New Zealand in 2018. Mercury CEO Fraser Whineray stands with New Zealand Minister for Energy Dr Megan Woods. Image: Mercury Energy.

New Zealand battery project awarded to Saft as regulator prepares storage-friendly rule changes

March 11, 2022
Construction will commence in New Zealand on the country’s biggest battery energy storage system (BESS) project so far, in July.
Origin's Eraring coal power station (above), is currently the site of a major BESS development by Origin. Image: CSIRO.

Australia’s Origin Energy to replace coal with energy storage and virtual power plant

March 9, 2022
Origin Energy has outlined how a virtual power plant (VPP) and large-scale battery storage will allow it to replace coal.
Official opening of a hybrid renewable microgrid at Agnew gold mine, November 2021. Image: EDL Energy.

Australia funding renewable-hydrogen-battery microgrid in Queensland rainforest community

March 7, 2022
The community of the Daintree Rainforest region in Queensland, Australia, will host a “world-leading renewable microgrid”.
The hybrid renewable power station at Jabiru. Image: EDL.

Hybrid projects enable 50+% renewable energy use at remote Australian locations

March 3, 2022
Hybrid projects in Australia have enabled a gold mine and a remote township to run at 50% or more average penetration of renewable energy. 
PV modules ready for installation at one of Genex's now-completed solar PV plants. Image: Genex Power.

Genex reaches financial close on 100MWh Bouldercombe battery project

March 1, 2022
Genex Power has now achieved financial close on its 50MW/100MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Queensland, Australia. 
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Australian flow battery company Redflow reports 172.3% jump in half-year revenues

March 1, 2022
Redflow has reported a significant rise in revenues from its zinc-bromide flow batteries but the Australian company noted that it expects to remain “cash-flow negative for some time”.

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