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Victoria's SEC commits $43M to a 1.86GWh battery as NEM prices spike 47%, but new reports warn policy uncertainty and commissioning delays are the biggest brakes on Australia's energy transition.
The announcement this week that the Whyalla Steelworks blast furnace would permanently close with the loss of more than 500 jobs, impacting the entire regional community, was a dark day. It has also been a long time coming.
EnergyLab co-founder Piers Grove has resigned as chair after supporting over 100 climate tech startups, with fellow co-founder James Tilbury assuming the role. The accelerator continues its flagship program, raising $1 million annually from investors like ARENA to provide $80,000 to $100,000 in seed funding to 10 selected companies each year.
The Victorian State Electricity Commission is investing $43 million to acquire a stake in the 400MW/1.86GWh Baranduda battery project near Wodonga. Partnering with Aware Super and Birdwood Energy, the SEC aims to bolster regional grid reliability and support the state's transition to renewable energy through this large-scale storage initiative.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $8.2 million in funding for a major Canberra project that will test a simpler way for households to switch from gas to electricity, making homes more comfortable, efficient and cheaper to r…
Arena to lead a new $30 million funding program to help “promising” early-stage climate and renewable energy startups turn their ideas into a commercial reality.
Anthropic's proposed $30 billion data centre could consume 20% of a state's grid capacity, prompting analyst warnings that the project must procure its own renewable energy to avoid a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
A new report identifies inconsistent policy and planning ambiguity as the primary obstacles hindering Australia’s renewable energy rollout. Industry stakeholders warn that these complexities are destabilising the operating environment during a critical phase of the wind and solar transition.
The State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SEC), a government-owned electricity company in Victoria, Australia, along with Aware Super and Birdwood, have partnered to deliver a 1.86GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Wodonga, Victoria.
The Victorian government maintains its transmission expansion remains on schedule despite a current cost reassessment, rejecting claims of a project pause. Concurrently, network operators have dismissed allegations that compulsory land acquisitions are being utilized for the contested infrastructure developments.
Volvo has launched series production of its FH Aero Electric truck, featuring a 700 km range, alongside the debut of a new 80-tonne battery electric heavy vehicle. These developments mark a significant expansion in the manufacturer's high-capacity zero-emission transport offerings.
Implementation delays threaten a proposed trial to suspend prepaid electricity meter disconnections during extreme heatwaves for vulnerable residents in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. The initiative aims to maintain essential cooling services for remote communities as they face record-breaking El Niño weather conditions.
Alinta Energy has received the first shipment of battery units for its 250MW Reeves Plains Battery project in South Australia.
Original Power is leading a push to protect people using prepaid meters from being disconnected when temperatures rise above 40ºC.
Solar recycling industry calls on federal government to make an "immediate legal and procedural intervention" to unblock the national pilot and get it going before year's end.
Solar industry warns that anti-dumping ruling will unfairly hit projects already being built, and add costs and delays to other projects in the pipeline.
Spain is establishing a capacity market to compensate generation, storage, and demand response providers for firm capacity, alongside a revised grid investment plan exceeding €17 billion through 2030.
Researchers in Milan used PV inverters to supply 500 kVAr of reactive power to the distribution grid for four hours overnight. The trial showed that existing solar equipment can support voltage regulation even when it is not generating electricity.
The International Hydropower Association's Delhi Declaration urges Indian policymakers to streamline approvals and enhance revenue frameworks to access a potential 288GW of pumped hydro storage. The call for action emphasizes improved inter-agency coordination to accelerate the development of these large-scale energy storage assets.
The Bangladeshi government has established a $123 million concessional financing fund for rooftop solar and renewable projects, while simultaneously pursuing international capital to deploy 4 GW of rooftop capacity by mid-2025.
Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Randolph Mann, CEO at developer esVolta at the 2026 US Battery Asset Management Summit in Garden Grove, California.
Industry experts report that battery energy storage system handovers are suffering from persistent technical deficiencies and poor communication during the transition from construction to operations. These commissioning hurdles are currently delaying the integration of storage assets into the Australian energy market.
Hithium has launched a new sodium-ion battery cell and a 4MWh energy storage system featuring a projected 20,000-cycle durability. The manufacturer claims the new product line is expected to achieve a 30-year operational lifespan for stationary storage applications.
InfoLink Consulting expects global residential energy storage capacity additions to reach 46.1 GWh in 2026, led by Europe, Oceania, and Asia. Fox ESS, Sigenergy, and Deye ranked as the top three suppliers by shipment volume in the first half of 2026.
Vineyard Wind and GE Vernova have finalized a confidential settlement to resolve a commercial legal dispute concerning their offshore wind project in Massachusetts. The agreement concludes litigation between the developer and the turbine manufacturer regarding the 800 MW facility.
China has identified perovskite solar and next-generation batteries as strategic priorities in its 2026-30 industrial roadmap. The plan also calls for tighter oversight of manufacturing capacity and price competition.
Taiwanese authorities have updated the voluntary high-efficiency solar module standard to include mandatory carbon-footprint thresholds and more rigorous durability testing. This regulatory shift links product certification directly to lifecycle emissions for PV hardware sold in the region.
SEG Solar has announced the production of its first heterojunction (HJT) solar module at its Tomball #1 manufacturing facility.
Jupiter Power has closed $1.4bn in project financing across four separate transactions to back ten utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Texas and Michigan, US.
The platinum industry is exploring proton exchange membrane (PEM) hydrogen technologies as a potential replacement for its primary automotive end market, which faces disruption from accelerating vehicle electrification.
At last week’s Battery & Energy Tech Expo in Barcelona, Spain, panellists highlighted some of the challenges that companies are facing for a faster deployment of BESS.
In Shenzhen this week, the Global Low-Carbon Industry Forum opened under the theme ‘Making the Most of Every Ray, Powering the Unpowered.’
Fluence has revised downward its fiscal year 2026 (FY2026) guidance, attributing the financial hit largely to US supply chain delays.
Data centre builds are surging, but supply chain bottlenecks leave 2,500 projects stuck in pipeline.
South Korea has enacted its first dedicated agrivoltaics law, extending the maximum project period to 30 years from a previously reported 23-year framework, but key technical requirements remain undecided pending additional regulations.
Researchers replaced the conventional 20 nm SnOₓ buffer layer with just 3 nm of ALD-deposited AlOₓ, which protected inverted perovskite cells from ITO sputtering damage while maintaining efficient charge extraction.
A coalition of over 30 organisations wants to accelerate electrification across Australia’s homes, businesses, farms, transport and industry. But some formidable roadblocks stand in their way.
Calculate private 5G ROI in oil and gas: connect workers, automate inspections, reduce downtime, optimize maintenance.
Alpex Solar has inaugurated a G12R TOPCon solar cell factory in Uttar Pradesh, expanding its vertically integrated manufacturing operations.
The thin-film manufacturer withdrew its Section 337 filing before the USITC following new Section 232 import restrictions, while federal court patent battles against domestic and foreign manufacturers move forward.
CATL unveils new generation vehicle battery, the Tectrans II, which it says supports up to 1,000 km of range for heavy-duty trucks and battery swapping.
Federal government backs trial for 1,000 households in national capital that will use a specially designed digital "one stop shop" to make home electrification less daunting.
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