Battery/Storage

After a successful phase one, Ausgrid launches second phase of household battery-based virtual power plant, with two new "aggregator" partners – ShineHub and Evergen.

Deakin-led research team says it has found the ingredients to create safer, more efficient, and higher energy density batteries for use in households and industries.

NSW government unveils further relaxations to renewable energy development policy, paving way for installation of larger residential and commercial rooftop solar systems.

What, exactly, is a two-sided wholesale electricity market? And will it really be good for consumers, or just sound like it?

Community owned Indigo Power succesfully completes investment round, targets expansion of community energy across North-east Victoria.

Solar Victoria says it will expand its home battery rebate scheme starting July to encourage the aggregation of distributed battery systems and pave the way for VPPs in the state.

Sunwiz director Warwick Johnston on the uptake of battery storage by Australian homes. And we ask the question: Has Covid-19 killed crap solar?

Connected Communities deal to start with 62-apartment complex in Inglewood, made 100% renewable through embedded network of solar and storage.

More than 5,000 solar households apply for battery storage subsidy in just five weeks, in a last-minute rush to access a $6000 discount via state government home battery scheme.

Australian households invested in almost two-and-a-half “Big Batteries” worth of home energy storage in 2019, installing 22,661 systems over the course of the year with a total capacity of 233MWh, and taking further control over their energy supply.

W.A. unveils new energy roadmap focusing on rooftop solar, batteries and EVs, and will roll out ten "neighbourhood" batteries in and around Perth before end of the year.

A South Australian clean energy startup has launched software to control the purchase and release of electricity in household grid-powered battery systems.

Northern Territory to provide $6,000 grant for homes and businesses to install battery storage, funded by a cut in the solar feed in tariff.

Tesla data shows how household batteries orchestrated through "virtual power plants" provide critical system security services and respond to price signals to push down costs for all consumers.

Visy Board cleared to send power to the grid from a nearly 2MW rooftop solar and Tesla Powerpack system the company installed on a facility in Gepps Cross, South Australia.

An award-winning UK solar research project at Swansea University has tapped the zinc-bromine flow battery technology of Australian energy storage company Redflow.