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    Battery Storage

    5-minute settlement rule change pushed back to 1 October 2021 – Batteries and Demand Response to benefit as gas loses the advantage
    5 minute settlement rule

    By Mike Carabott

    The National Energy Market’s planned transition to a 5-minute electricity price settlement rule from the current 30- minute rule has been pushed back from July …

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    Large-scale batteries cheaper, more flexible than gas and essential to Australia’s renewable energy transition
    Battery Farm

    By Mike Carabott | April 20, 2021

    Large-scale batteries are essential to Australia’s transition to renewable energy. Battery storage is the new clean peaker, proving to be 30 percent cheaper than gas, …

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    Experts say “Sun Tax” will discourage solar exports and encourage battery storage when demand is low
    rooftop panels sun tax

    By Mike Carabott

    A proposal to place tariffs on solar households electricity exports into the grid has been labelled a Sun Tax by solar advocates. But experts have …

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    AGL’s Liddell coal plant to get new lease of life as big battery storage project
    Liddell Power Station

    By Mike Carabott

    AGL Energy will turn its obsolete Hunter Valley Liddell coal generation plant into a giant 500 MW battery as it manages the transition to a …

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    Solar and battery installations instant asset write-off upped to $150,000 under Coronavirus Stimulus Package

    By Katy Horan | March 19, 2020

    The new $17.6 billion Coronavirus stimulus package announced on March 12 lifts the threshold for instant asset write-offs, which may include solar and battery installations, …

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    Can commercial battery storage solve our daytime supply excess?
    Commercial Battery Storage

    By Mike Carabott and Ewen Beard

    Commercial battery storage schemes are being touted as the solution to the excess volume of electricity flowing into the grid during daytime hours as a …

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    Early retirement of Queensland coal-fired generator prompts fears of spot price spike
    coal

    By Mike Carabott | October 9, 2019

    The 700-Megawatt Callide B Queensland coal-fired generator will shut down 10 years ahead of schedule in 2028, prompting fears that night time spot prices will …

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    Battery storage and pumped hydro seen as solutions to ‘firming up’ renewable energy generation
    firming

    By Mike Carabott

    Battery storage and pumped hydro are increasingly being seen as the most practical way of ‘firming up’ supply from renewable energy sources, allowing for trading …

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    City of Sydney opens 1,600 solar panel and Tesla battery project to boost 50 percent renewables target
    solar and battery

    By Mike Carabott | June 29, 2018

    Sydney’s drive to switch to renewable energy sources made another leap forward this week as the Lord Mayor flicked the Alexandra Canal transport depot solar …

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    Work on $550 million Bulgana wind and battery project starts in Victoria
    Bulgana wind farm

    By Mike Carabott | May 18, 2018

    French renewable energy firm Neoen has begun construction of the $550 million 194 Megawatt Bulgana wind farm and battery storage facility in Victoria. The commencement …

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