Battery/Storage

Social housing tenants enjoy Tasmania’s first community microgrid with solar and Tesla batteries

Tasmania’s first community microgrid, with rooftop solar and Tesla battery storage, is successfully powering a group of social housing tenants…

April 7, 2021

Energy Queensland to trial five grid-connected batteries in high solar zones

Energy Queensland to trial network-connected batteries in five regional locations that will host a total of 40MWh of storage capacity…

March 25, 2021

Tackling energy resilience with solar and deeply discounted Tesla batteries

A Californian city has approved plans to install solar-based microgrids at five critical facilities using Tesla batteries paid for by…

March 25, 2021

Germany installed 100,000 home batteries in “year of Corona”

German households have now installed a total of 300,000 battery systems, as the proportion of home solar systems installed with…

March 24, 2021

Tesla launches new battery energy plan, including big Powerwall discount

Tesla launches new energy plan in South Australia that promises big discounts on home battery storage and more behind-the-meter back-up…

March 23, 2021

Australians installed 31,000 batteries in 2020, led by households

New data shows Australians installed more than 31,000 battery energy storage systems around the country in 2020, a 20 per…

March 19, 2021

Hybrid solar and battery system to power mineral sands project in W.A.

ASX-listed miner Strandline Resources has signed a 15-year supply agreement with Contract Power, a move that will see it pay…

March 16, 2021

Texas grid failure shows how microgrids offer hope for a better future

Microgrids and supporting technologies offer the potential to make grid failures like what happened in Texas a thing of the…

March 10, 2021

Mining majors pledge to electrify industry with renewables, batteries, EVs

Fourteen companies join forces to decarbonise Australian mining industry and to help it harness the benefits of renewables, storage and…

March 10, 2021

Australia’s Redflow enters US market with battery deal with Californian bioenergy plant

Australian battery maker Redflow pushes into the US market, after signing a $1.2 million deal with Californian bioenergy plant.

March 9, 2021