Battery/Storage

Sales of Tesla Powerwall begin in Australia as the first authorised resellers of the 7kWh battery are announced and launch their offers.

Tesla says Australian customers can 'put money down' for Tesla Powerwall battery storage units before Christmas, with the nation's first authorised reseller set to be named.

WA network operator Synergy sees a future where new-build homes source only 10% of their energy from the grid. But with battery storage costs falling, will they bother with the grid at all?

What’s the best metric for evaluating storage? No one has come up with one yet.

Amid predictions that half of all Australian households will have solar and battery storage within the decade, it's time to do a stocktake of what is available on the Australian market. (This is an updated list).

ARENA-backed project to investigate how PV and storage systems could provide ‘behind the meter’ power needs for suburban communities.

With residential battery storage set to boom, a new consumer report by the CSIRO answers some of the key questions we should all be asking about the technology many predict will be a feature in half of all Australian households by the end of the decade.

Here are the three common mistakes we see when assessing the potential of solar and storage. Read them, critique them, but please, don’t make them.

Hybrid battery systems are highly technical and their overly simplified specification sheets rarely provide the information required to make an accurate comparison.

A cotton farm in Moree, NSW, has installed an off-grid, hybrid solar plant with battery storage to power the irrigation of its crops.

An off-grid modular home in Trentham, Victoria, designed and built for less than $300k, has won a top energy efficiency award.

The economics of battery storage depends where you live and who you live with, and if you are allowed to share energy. For some Australian households, battery storage could make sense as soon as 2018.

Lorraine Hughes was enjoying solar power long before it became mainstream, but since her retirement took herself back to university and has become an environmental educator. Now, she'd like an electric vehicle.

Balunu Foundation seeks $40,000 for off-grid solar + storage system that can slash diesel costs and help save lives of teenagers at risk.

Another US battery storage contender enters booming Australian market, with lithium ferrous phosphate batteries said to rival the Tesla Powerwall.

Hydro Tasmania's world-leading hybrid solar, wind and energy storage plant on King Island supplied 100 per cent renewables to the community for nearly two days straight, this month.