Smart Energy International

JUNE 3, 2024

Renewable asset developer ACEN Australia has awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contracts for its New England 200MW/400MWh battery storage project.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

million) in contracts to deliver the new battery energy storage systems in Kwinana and Collie, together totalling 2.8GWh in storage capacity. Limited (CATL) has been contracted to supply 300 EnerC Plus, containerised liquid-cooling battery systems for Kwinana Battery Stage Two, and about 650 EnerC Plus for Collie. billion ($1.8

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 12, 2024

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has granted Generator Performance Standard (GPS) approval for the Waratah Super Battery, marking the first approval for such a large battery energy storage project. The super battery is anticipated to be 850MW/1,680MWh.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 18, 2024

Construction has begun on Synergy’s Collie battery energy storage system, which will be one of the biggest grid-scale batteries in Australia when complete. The battery is expected to be completed by the end of 2025. Kwinana Battery Stage Two is under construction and is due to be completed in late 2024.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The 185MW/370MWh battery storage system, valued at AUD400 million ($253.9 Australian renewable energy company Edify Energy and Sosteneo, a specialist infrastructure investor, announced the completion of project financing to build and operate the Koorangie Energy Storage System (KESS) with support from Shell Energy.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 17, 2022

As the adoption of electric vehicles and distributed energy resources like solar, wind power, and battery storage become more widespread and add more load to the grid, the introduction of these new elements creates disruption and presents grid reliability challenges that must be addressed. Webinar broadcast date: Tuesday, 19 July 2022.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

US-based energy storage company Pacific Green Technologies has announced a target of more than 12GWh in battery storage capacity across four global markets for this year. Pacific Green is targeting a minimum of 1GWh capacity in each market it enters.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Conclusion Having engaged in energy storage for more than ten years, CLOU has independently developed PCS, battery system, battery management (BMS), and energy management system (EMS), as well as system of operating, maintaining and analysing the whole life period of energy storage. Read more news from Shenzhen CLOU.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Conclusion Having engaged in energy storage for more than ten years, CLOU has independently developed PCS, battery system, battery management (BMS), and energy management system (EMS), as well as system of operating, maintaining and analysing the whole life period of energy storage. Read more news from Shenzhen CLOU.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 22, 2022

DERMS for Australian rural microgrids, AI for rapid outage recovery in China, 3D printing of high performance battery electrodes and a partnership to discover new materials for the energy transition are in the technology radar. Micro-engineering electrodes to cut battery costs. Horizon Power – DERMS for rural microgrids.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Billed as one of the most sophisticated energy R&D hubs in Australia, its use is for the testing of solar and batteries, microgrids and standalone power systems, as well as emerging technologies such as hydrogen energy storage and carbon reduction. The Au$6 million (US$4.3 Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Over the past several years, it has sped up enlarging its international business layout, and its current scope of business involves in North America, South America, Australia, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Read more from Shenzhen CLOU.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2023

This latest Rewiring the Nation backing followed the landmark deal between the Commonwealth, Tasmanian and Victorian governments for two undersea cables to link Tasmania’s Battery of the Nation projects to the mainland; the Victorian leg of VNI West (Kerang Link); and a range of REZ projects, including offshore wind.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 20, 2024

According to SA Power Networks in a release, the operational and environmental benefits of replacing these with Carbonix drones would see an up to 80% reduction in operating cost and up to 98% reduction in CO2 output while improving safety and efficiency.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2022

ARENA CEO Darren Miller said concerning the importance of supporting flexible demand projects: “For commercial and industrial sites, flexible demand is a potential alternative to costly upgrades to network infrastructure or building large-scale batteries.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 17, 2024

Monique Miller, CEFC’s CIO – Renewables and Sustainable Finance, says that more and more Australians are generating and storing their own electricity, using the energy of the sun to power their cars as well as their energy efficient appliances, backed up by home batteries. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 9, 2024

They’re essentially big batteries on wheels.” “We have a fleet of 51 EVs across Canberra that monitor the grid whenever they’re plugged in and can quickly inject short bursts of power to rebalance the system if the national grid rapidly loses power. The EV trial took place during an event in February, caused by storms in Victoria.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2023

Shell Energy Australia is partnering up on – and will connect to the grid – a 500MW/1GWh BESS ( Battery Energy Storage System), to be built on the site of the old Wallerawang Power Station near Lithgow, New South Wales (NSW).

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 22, 2022

The project, under way with Perth-based property developer OP Properties, is a 39 apartment building in Fremantle, Western Australia, in which residents will live low carbon through the use of solar panels and battery storage along with Powerledger’s power trading technology to deliver a 50% offset to the building strata levies.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 6, 2024

Have you read: Australian super battery Waratah gets connection greenlight Victoria utilities to lead flexibility market development in Australia In a statement, ARENA CEO Darren Miller said the project would demonstrate the value flexible demand can offer households, in a market saturated with renewable energy.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 5, 2022

These initiatives, as well as Jemena’s LiDAR announcement, are all aimed at advancing the company’s hope to “help prepare the grid for the future by improving the ability of our network to host additional solar, batteries and electric vehicles,” commented Edwards. “We

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The microgrid, developed by the state distribution company Western Power in partnership with the power company Synergy, is comprised of 1.6MW of wind, up to 1MW of rooftop solar and a 5MW/4.5MWh storage battery.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 6, 2023

According to the market operator is a press release, developing a modernised grid to cope with increasing levels of renewable energy and technology, such as grid-scale battery storage, has been one of the driving forces behind the reforms.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

When deployed together with electricity storage systems such as uninterruptible power supply (UPS) batteries, organizations can further reduce facility operating costs and in some cases, earn additional revenue through participation in the energy market. Grid users can even share existing infrastructure to further reduce costs.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 5, 2024

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has announced a vital reform in network planning to make it easier for households and businesses to utilise their customer energy resources (CER), such as household batteries and EVs, to lower energy bills and feed energy back into the grid.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

So, these manuacturing sessions are expected to focus on the giga factories, not necessarily only for Li-ion batteries but it would be for any technologies, batteries, or even electrolysers or, EV manufacturing. Over the last five years, the term giga factories have come to prominence.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 26, 2022

Increasingly higher optimisations can be achieved when the consumer has other types of assets like a battery and/or solar PV generation at their consumption access point as these additional assets provide additional flexibility for moving away from high prices of electricity or even for choosing when to consume electricity from the grid.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

Clean hydropower can then feed the mainland grid when it is needed most, acting as a large battery for the nation. The connection will enable the Tasmanian state to import excess supply of solar and wind produced in Victoria, while reserving its hydro and storing the extra energy. million Australian homes.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 5, 2023

“As the EV market rapidly matures, V2G services will give fleet operators new ways to save on charging costs, monetise their electric vehicle fleets, and provide grid operators with flexible and mobile assets to support a more flexible, reliable and sustainable electric grid.”

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 18, 2023

million) load control project will initially target integration with residential hot water systems and solar PV, before expanding to incorporate other customer energy resources (CER) such as batteries, electric vehicle chargers and pool pumps over two years. Intellihub’s AU$22 million ($14.8

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This practice is hoped to enhance grid reliability during high demand periods and generate revenue for participating businesses that can offer flexible demand capacity.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A total of 46GW/640GWh of pumped hydro and utility-scale battery storage capacity will be needed to balance the market by 2050, they find, a significant increase from the country’s current 2.8GW. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed To handle these fluctuations, the company suggests that increased storage capacity is required.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

These price settings, states the AEMC in a release, would have no impact on wholesale electricity prices over 99% of the time but would deliver additional capacity to reduce the risk of power outage and ensure the electricity system remains reliable for households and businesses.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 13, 2022

The joint sustainability coordinators and mandated lead arrangers for the loan are Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Australia and New Zealand Banking, as part of a syndicate of a total 17 banks.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 11, 2022

While conventional storage technologies like batteries play an important role, a complementary, grid-scale dispatchable energy solution is required to power a seamless transition to renewables nationally.” ” Australia’s energy storage requirements.

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PV Tech

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TransAlta and BHP have started commercial operations at a solar-plus-storage facility in Western Australia.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 12, 2022

Equipped with battery dispatch modelling and an intuitive user interface, HOMER Front performs technical and economic analysis that helps developers optimise the revenue of their energy storage or hybrid project. The software reportedly allows users to rapidly test and analyse wind, solar and battery project size, architecture and technology.

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