Utility Scale Storage

Queensland Hydro has announced more than $190 million in work packages linked to the construction of the 2 GW / 48 GWh Borumba pumped hydro energy storage project being developed near Gympie in the state’s southeast.

Genex Power has struck an offtake agreement with Queensland government-owned energy giant Stanwell Corporation that will underpin the development of the 775 MW first stage of the Bulli Creek solar and battery project planned for the state’s southeast.

This year’s UN Climate Change Conference could adopt a target to increase global energy storage capacity more than sixfold by 2030. To achieve this, the world would need to add more than 158 GW of energy-storage capacity annually.

Spanish-Japanese renewable energy company Univergy Solar and Australian partner New Energy Development have secured New South Wales government approval to build a 100 MW solar farm and 45 MW / 90 MWh battery energy storage system in the Yass Valley.

Australian Vanadium Limited has achieved another milestone in its ‘pit to battery’ strategy with the successful deployment of its vanadium electrolyte in a 78 kW / 220 kWh flow battery.

State and federal governments are being urged to ramp up deployment of long-duration energy storage after a new report found significant capacity additions would result in 38% lower system costs than alternatives while playing a critical role in maintaining reliability as coal plants retire over the next decade.

The 30 MW plant is the first utility-scale, grid-connected flywheel energy storage project in China and the largest one in the world.

Australia’s largest generator of clean, renewable energy, Hydro Tasmania will invest $1.6 billion over the coming decade to upgrade and modernise its existing hydropower network, with spillover benefits for its Battery of the Nation ambition.

Australian battery materials producer Next-Gen Energy Technology has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with technology giant Siemens toward establishing the first Li-NCA cathode materials manufacturing plant outside of China.

A show of hands for access rights to the South West Renewable Energy Zone amounts to more than 15 GW of generation and storage infrastructure, more than four times the tender target.