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A massive 4.8 GWh battery hits a key milestone in NSW, even as global solar manufacturers bleed cash from chronic oversupply, highlighting a deep divergence in the energy supply chain.
Nine north-western Victoria councils are fighting to ensure their communities get the most out the transition to renewables, with a new strategy and a push for more government funding.
Record deployment of wind, solar, and battery storage, alongside increased electric vehicle adoption, has reduced Australian emissions, though current reduction rates remain insufficient to achieve national climate targets.
Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen has dismissed claims of fossil fuel exemptions for data centres, affirming that all states and territories must adhere to proposed renewable energy mandates for the sector. The government maintains a uniform national approach to ensure these high-load facilities are powered by green energy without regional carve-outs.
Octopus Australia and partner Enervest have referred the 1.2GW/4.8GWh Hanworth Battery Project for federal environmental assessment under the EPBC Act. Located in New South Wales, the four-hour duration storage facility represents a significant expansion of the developer's domestic renewable energy portfolio.
As the NT government fights to power future data centres with gas, its publicly-owned utility is preparing to launch a tender for more grid-scale solar generation capacity to bolster its grids.
The Mt Weld rare earths mine in Western Australia, backed by Gina Rinehart, achieved a 93% renewable energy penetration rate during the first half of 2024. This high clean energy share supports the decarbonisation of the critical minerals supply chain essential for the electric vehicle industry.
Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen has reaffirmed the critical role of transmission infrastructure, including the VNI West link, despite potential political threats to project delivery. While emphasizing that these grid upgrades are essential for the transition, the government has yet to provide a revised cost update for the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project.
We noted a ~500MW jump in 'Market Demand' in Victoria just after 11:00 on Friday 28th August 2026 that was not forecast in advance. We wonder about 'three hours free' effects...
Ausconnex has begun construction on the first of eight community BESS planned across Greater Western Sydney, Australia.
AMPYR Australia has appointed OptiGrid to manage its battery storage portfolio using the OptiBidder platform. The selection followed a digital twin benchmarking exercise that verified the software's ability to outperform competing systems in revenue generation.
Remote First Nations communities face significant barriers to deploying small-scale solar and battery microgrids despite their potential for high impact. Current challenges prevent these decentralized energy systems from being implemented at the scale required to address regional energy needs.
Sabiene Heindl from The Energy Charter on the need for strong regional leaders for transition to renewables. Plus: The frack up over data centres, and other news.
Australian renters are being slugged almost $440m a year to stay connected to gas, analysis shows, even though landlords control whether properties remain on the network.
Big battery developers are facing increasing scrutiny from local communities about their projects. Some of the issues can be easily addressed.
Peugeot joins the electric van price war in Australia, slashing prices by nearly one third.
Global renewable energy investment reached $327.5 billion in the first half of 2026, as capital shifted toward solar-plus-storage projects amid growing revenue uncertainty.
Major Chinese solar manufacturers reported significant financial losses for the first half of 2024. Persistent market oversupply and depressed module prices are driving this downturn in profitability across the global PV supply chain.
Intertek CEA forecasts global solar installations will hit 638 GW by 2026, though severe structural oversupply persists as manufacturing capacity for all production stages significantly outpaces projected demand.
Major Chinese battery manufacturers including CATL, EVE, and REPT are reporting consistent earnings growth and a return to profitability for second-tier players during the first half of 2024. This financial recovery signals a stabilizing global supply chain for battery energy storage systems following recent market volatility.
Nomad Power Solutions has announced that the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity has authorised the advancement of an energy storage demonstration project in Vermont.
Wood Mackenzie forecasts Latin America’s energy storage capacity to surge from 2.5 GW in 2025 to 34 GW by 2035, driven by renewable curtailment, grid constraints, auctions, and supportive policies.
Cbm-Tech has launched a green hydrogen hub in Walvis Bay combining 5 MW of solar, a 5 MW PEM electrolyzer and 5.9 MWh of battery storage.
With pumped storage capacity forecast to reach 238.7GW by 2035, construction activity across China is moving forward on multiple fronts
Quaise Energy secured $180 million in Series B funding to advance Project Obsidian, a proposed superhot geothermal facility in Oregon, USA. The capital will fund the development of the pilot plant, which aims to harness deep geothermal heat as a scalable clean energy source.
Industry participants are sharing informal analysis and unofficial updates regarding recent developments within the energy storage sector. This weekly compilation highlights community-sourced perspectives on market trends and technical reveals relevant to battery energy storage systems.
Canadian provinces are accelerating solar deployment and energy infrastructure integration to mitigate risks from US tariff volatility. National strategies increasingly prioritise renewable investment to ensure energy security across diverse regional markets.
Record number of UK households apply for heat pump grant as increased support for heating oil homes rolled out in response to Middle East conflict. July applications up 81% against June figures.
In a new weekly update for pv magazine , Solcast, a DNV company, reports that Europe’s solar irradiance averaged 5% above the 2007–2025 norm in August 2026, with nearly three-quarters of the continent seeing above-average levels due to persistent hig…
ACME Solar has obtained long-term project financing of $164m from IIFCL for the development of a 300MW assured peak power project.
pv magazine spoke with Alexander Brown, Senior Analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), about why consolidation in China’s PV industry is taking longer than expected, how the current downturn differs from previous overcapacity cy…
Geothermal energy company Bedrock Energy has had its proposed compressed air energy storage (CAES) project in Huron County, Ontario, Canada rejected.
Entries for the Energy Storage Awards 2026 close soon, and with it, the last chance to take the stage alongside the industry’s finest, and Special Guest Speaker, Ben Fogle.
Head of Australia's biggest car dealer company says they're not seeing a lot of people who have bought plug-in EVs coming back to ICE vehicles.
Musso electric ute has its tow rating lifted, to even higher than the new Hilux electric ute, and easily enough to tow the boat that one former PM said wouldn't be possible.
The US Army has selected five vendors to build, own and operate microreactors at five military bases under the Janus programme, backed by up to $2.2bn.
Tesla held a vote on preferred Supercharger sites. Three sites attracted massive votes, and then Tesla chose another winner. Why bother?
A Selçuk University researcher has compared six machine learning algorithms for predicting front- and rear-side plane-of-array irradiance in bifacial PV systems.
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