Battery/Storage

A client recently presented us with a challenge: More than 2,000 properties that could have solar and batteries installed, but a limited budget. Here's what we found.

A $15m large-scale solar and battery storage rollout across six regional Western Australia towns has been completed, with a final system installed at Norseman.

Australians aren’t signing up to VPPs at the rate the government needs to meet its climate targets. Here's why – and what needs to change.

Government and industry are pushing consumers to join virtual power plants, but our energy system is full of roadblocks and disincentives.

Rosemary Grundy is on a mission to demonstrate that going renewable and electric is not only good for the climate, but makes financial sense.

Clean Energy Council retains the job of managing the list of products that can participate in the federal rooftop solar rebate, on the condition it lifts its game.

Five months after it was first announced, NSW launches its home battery incentive, offering up to $2,400 discounts on solar storage and rebates to join VPPs.

First non-network owned battery delivered through federal Labor's Community Batteries program launches on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.

Australian-owned and operated Redback Technologies reveals specs of its new batteries and its plans to "make people sit up and take notice again."

Village Power are the latest community energy group to be knocked back for asset insurance for their community battery.

Australian home battery and smart inverter outfit announces launch of "next generation" product range, six months after a brief stint in voluntary administration.

AGL Energy dangles a new carrot to entice customers to join its virtual power plant, which it hopes will reach 1.6GW of combined capacity by 2027.

Ausgrid says costs for community batteries are coming down with each new deployment – and they will be cost-effective without government grants.

Ausgrid's Rob Amphlett Lewis on why mid-scale batteries have a big role to play in the energy transition, how they will become cost effective in the future, and how householders can benefit from them.

Last year I shared an article about how to calculate the break-even point on my family home’s renewable energy system. New data means an update on the ROI.

Australia is already a world leader in rooftop solar. With the right policy levers, we can also lead the world in home energy storage.