Battery/Storage

Power Ledger to deliver blockchain solar microgrids to 10 Perth apartment buildings

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

April 22, 2020

Thousands pile in to S.A. home battery scheme before subsidy winds back

More than 5,000 solar households apply for battery storage subsidy in just five weeks, in a last-minute rush to access…

April 17, 2020

Australians installed 22,661 home battery systems in 2019

Australian households invested in almost two-and-a-half “Big Batteries” worth of home energy storage in 2019, installing 22,661 systems over the…

April 16, 2020

West Australia puts community batteries at top of new energy roadmap

W.A. unveils new energy roadmap focusing on rooftop solar, batteries and EVs, and will roll out ten "neighbourhood" batteries in…

April 9, 2020

Home battery software aims to outsmart electricity prices

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

April 7, 2020

Northern Territory offers $6,000 grant for home batteries, cuts solar tariff

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

April 5, 2020

How your household battery can keep the grid stable and prices down

Tesla data shows how household batteries orchestrated through "virtual power plants" provide critical system security services and respond to price…

April 2, 2020

Recycling giant awarded generation licence for SA solar and battery plant

Visy Board cleared to send power to the grid from a nearly 2MW rooftop solar and Tesla Powerpack system the…

March 30, 2020

Redflow supplies battery “backbone” for Swansea University solar minigrid

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

March 27, 2020

Redflow zinc bromine batteries help take W.A. farm off-grid

Western Australia farm takes its 26-year old business off-grid with solar PV and 40kWh of zinc bromine flow batteries from…

March 26, 2020