Battery

Battery

Cheaper Home Batteries 2.0: How the rebate changes will affect prices and consumer choices
After 10 months and close to 350,000 installations, the home battery rebate is changing this week. What will this do to prices and consumer choice?
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 28, 2026

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AEMO looks to EVs, data centres and industry to help ease overload of rooftop PV in middle of day
Market operator has been using big batteries to help flatten solar duck curve, now it is looking to EVs, data centers and others to help absorb excess rooftop PV.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 28, 2026

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Battery

From footnote to feature: How batteries are evolving on the national electricity market
The question is becoming less about whether batteries matter. It is how visible, coordinated, and useful they become.
Geoff Eldridge

Apr 27, 2026

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Storage

Construction contract awarded for new 200 MW, four-hour battery project
Contract awarded to build a 200 MW, 800 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in South Australia.
Joshua S Hill

Apr 27, 2026

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Wind, solar and battery projects at record high, but many stuck in funding, supply chain and other bottlenecks
Wind, solar and battery connection pipeline now at record high, but AEMO says many stuck at finance, supply chain, ownership and other bottlenecks.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 26, 2026

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Electrification

Bunnings extends zero up-front home solar and battery deal to three new states
Bunnings is rolling out its solar-battery subscription service to cities across the east coast after proving the idea in a trial across Sydney and Newcastle.
Rachel Williamson

Apr 24, 2026

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Battery

“I’ll sign, you drill:” State puts oil and gas project on fast-track, two days after “calling in” another big battery
State government fast tracks approval for Australia’s first new prospective oil field in 50 years – and slams brakes on another big battery proposal.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 24, 2026

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Policy & Planning

Like Google Maps for the grid: AEMC seeks to boost network visibility of solar, batteries and EVs
AEMC proposes network data and planning reforms it says will be like “upgrading … from an old street directory to Google Maps” on visibility and integration of consumer energy resources.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 24, 2026

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Policy & Planning

Solar-battery project seals first local benefits deal under state’s rigorous new planning regime
Renewables developer signs what it says is the first community benefits agreement (CBA) with a council, under stringent new state rules put in place last year.
Rachel Williamson

Apr 24, 2026

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Renewables

“Cheaper and faster:” Fortescue to create a $1 billion green grid to power data centres
Fortescue has announced plans to spend nearly $1 billion on a new fossil fuel-free green grid to help power data centres and other industry.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 24, 2026

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Commentary

Are the rich really using rooftop solar and home batteries to steal from the poor?
Murdoch tabloid claims that rooftop solar and home batteries are helping the rich and hurting the poor are simply not true.
Tristan Edis

Apr 23, 2026

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Solar

Ground-breaking NT microgrid lands $8.3m grant, set to kick off construction
A groundbreaking solar and battery powered microgrid is providing a scalable blueprint for more Indigenous communities in th NT.
Rachel Williamson

Apr 23, 2026

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