South Australia is going straight onto the world energy map with approval for the world’s largest lithium ion battery, to be installed before summer at Neoen's Hornsdale Wind Farm about 200km north of Adelaide.
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German battery brand Sonnen ramps up plans for Australia with virtual power plant offer
German battery maker Sonnen is the latest entrant to the local peer-to-peer energy trading market with sonnenFlat, which offers electricity at a capped rate in return for access to surplus stored energy to sell into the wholesale market.
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Hope for utility-scale energy storage, but don’t hope for too much
It’s hard to plan ahead when forecasts about the clean energy transition change every day. Academic Dr Roger Dargaville talks about murkiness in the deep reservoir of research and the role he sees for large-scale energy storage.
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Battery buyer beware, only a free flow of data will benefit the sector: Australian Vanadium boss
An Australian maker of vanadium flow batteries says only an informed market can make the best decisions about investing in utility-scale storage solutions.
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Kokam’s message to utility-scale battery buyers: know what you need
Korean battery giant Kokam has installed enough utility-scale storage to understand the complexity of getting it right and the risk of getting it wrong.
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Lyon launches utility-scale battery storage market services tender
The Lyon Group is seeking expressions of interest for contracts to cover up to 640MWh of storage capacity across Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.
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The day the ‘death spiral’ died
United Energy’s award-winning virtual power plant proved it was possible to manage peak demand.
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MPower’s 5.6MWh Rarotonga battery could offset 500,000L diesel a year
MPower has been awarded a contract to build a large-scale energy storage system in Rarotonga, capital of the Cook Islands.
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Drop the hype and sell the benefits of batteries: Enphase
The Australian solar-and-storage market is a complex environment, says Nathan Dunn of Enphase, where "you have to be focused on delivering a solution to each one of the different folks within the value chain.”
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Diversification the key to a resilient energy market: Carnegie
Australia’s energy markets are becoming more complex due to battery storage and rooftop solar, and diversifying the mix of energy sources can ensure the grid remains resilient, says Carnegie Clean Energy CEO Dr Michael Ottaviano.
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