Battery/Storage

Eight homes successfully separated from main electricity grid and operated as stand-alone solar and battery storage powered mini-grid, in Melbourne trial.

Early adopters of rooftop solar, and now battery storage, have got Australia's energy revolution well underway. But what's in it for those of us still smarting from a 200% increase in power bills? And how can we make the new energy market a fair one?

Redflow says it has resumed deliveries after solving a problem with impurities, and has also secured its large contract - for a Pacific Islands hybrid storage installation.

Qld solar and storage trial goes into third phase, with new retail product – Tariff 14 – designed to help guide customer energy consumption.

I'm not sure batteries are a club that I or any other home energy consumer should be rushing to join... At least not until some of the fog clears.

Tesla says installations of its Powerwall 2 home battery systems have begun in Australia, and will ramp up this month.

An electricity market "about as bad as you can get" has helped put household solar – and storage – back in the spotlight of Australia's renewables shift, prompting forecasts of "massive growth."

ASX-listed battery maker Redflow discovers electrolyte problems at pivotal time of home battery storage roll-out.

A Daintree Rainforest community's decades long campaign to get network supplied power has caught the attention of the federal energy minister and ARENA. But not all of the community's residents are on board with the idea, and say off-grid living is the way to go.

LG Chem's RESU home battery systems to team with Selectronic's Australian made SP PRO inverters – a tech duo to challenge the Tesla Powerwall 2.

Consumers want to take back control of their power supply, but is going off grid really the best use of solar and storage?

Tesla mobile app update allows Powerwall owners to monitor and manage their solar and battery storage “power flow”.

VSUN looks to household market for vanadium redox flow batteries, and to a local manufacturing facility to help reduce prices.

Australian developed solar technology that aims to tackle the dominance of diesel generators in the temporary power market will be tested at the 1MW scale in New South Wales, off the back of a new grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.

Some of Victoria’s key former gold and coal mining centres targeted by $1m fund to support development of community renewables, and solar and pumped hydro.

The success of two unusual US microgrid projects is good news, but it's still not clear whether microgrids have leapt ‘the chasm’ – a pivotal step in a disruptive technology’s market evolution.