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Home battery rebate numbers surge past 300,000 as storage shields grid from overseas shocks

Australia setting battery records across the market as home energy rebate passes a new milestone and Bowen credits storage for shielding grid from overseas shocks.

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Home battery boom delivers new market leader – this time from the budget end

Australia’s booming and hyper-competitive home battery market has a new number one brand claiming highest installed storage capacity based on February data.

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“Evening peaks are getting longer:” Developers follow the money and start supersizing batteries

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“Evening peaks are getting longer:” Developers follow the money and start supersizing batteries

Fluence is seeing fewer requests for two hour batteries as developers jump on lucrative longer evening peak. Data centres are also in focus.

Rachel Williamson

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Huge 1.6 gigawatt-hour battery gets federal green light for Queensland hub, state planning hurdles remain

A “strategically vital” BESS gets waved through federal environmental queue, while also reapplying for state approvals under the new LNP rules.

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Another big battery prepares to power up as Sunshine state leads extraordinary charge to storage in 2026

Battery component of solar and storage facility joins the grid, part of a boom that has already added more than 4 gigawatts of new capacity this financial year.

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Arena-backed green hydrogen plan disappears from queue for federal environmental approval

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Arena-backed green hydrogen plan disappears from queue for federal environmental approval

Arena-backed project hoping to kickstart a major solar and wind-backed green hydrogen hub has been withdrawn from the federal environmental approvals process.

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Grid batteries reach stunning new peak of 44 pct of evening demand in world’s fourth biggest economy

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Grid batteries reach stunning new peak of 44 pct of evening demand in world’s fourth biggest economy

Battery storage reaches a stunning new record in the world’s fourth biggest economy, reaching 44 pct of evening demand. The biggest loser is gas.

Giles Parkinson

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Home battery rebate numbers surge past 300,000 as storage shields grid from overseas shocks

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Home battery rebate numbers surge past 300,000 as storage shields grid from overseas shocks

Australia setting battery records across the market as home energy rebate passes a new milestone and Bowen credits storage for shielding grid from overseas shocks.

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Stand-alone solar and battery-powered level crossings deliver an Australian first for regional rail

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Stand-alone solar and battery-powered level crossings deliver an Australian first for regional rail

Stand-alone solar and battery systems used to upgrade upgraded remote rail crossings from “passive” – with no lights, bells or boom gates – to active.

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Snowy 2.0 budget to be exhausted in coming months, ratings agency says, as gas plant hit by new delays

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Snowy 2.0 budget to be exhausted in coming months, ratings agency says, as gas plant hit by new delays

Ratings agency warns of downgrades for Snowy Hydro, saying budget for Snowy 2.0 soon to be exhausted, and with more delays and cost overruns for Hunter gas.

Giles Parkinson

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Pumped hydro is vital to the future grid. So why does gas exploration get all the tax benefits?

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Pumped hydro is vital to the future grid. So why does gas exploration get all the tax benefits?

When gas companies drill a dry hole, the tax system shares the loss; when pumped hydro companies drill a dry hole, they carry the cost alone.

Rick McElhinney

We need more hydro, Turnbull says: But would many smaller projects have been better than Snowy 2.0?

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We need more hydro, Turnbull says: But would many smaller projects have been better than Snowy 2.0?

Malcolm Turnbull says more “simpler” pumped hydro needed as solar outpaces wind, and insists that Snowy 2.0 will deliver value despite delays and cost blowouts.

Giles Parkinson

“Bankable, critical:” State puts two pumped hydro energy storage projects on planning fast-track

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“Bankable, critical:” State puts two pumped hydro energy storage projects on planning fast-track

Two multi-billion dollar pumped hydro energy storage projects declared Critical State Significant Infrastructure in race to cancel out coal.

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“Proud moment:” Australian solar thermal pioneer powers up hybrid hydro system in Brazil

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“Proud moment:” Australian solar thermal pioneer powers up hybrid hydro system in Brazil

Australian solar innovator powers up a demonstration of its unique technology using concentrated solar to produce and store electricity and heat in a first international project.

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“Arguably a world first:” Historic solar thermal plant lines up for heritage listing

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“Arguably a world first:” Historic solar thermal plant lines up for heritage listing

Australia’s first commercially operated solar thermal power station and one of the first of its kind in the world is being considered for heritage listing.

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Australian concentrated solar thermal hopeful put into voluntary administration, buyers sought

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Australian concentrated solar thermal hopeful put into voluntary administration, buyers sought

Plans for a huge concentrated solar thermal project near Port Augusta dealt new blow, this time with new of an Australian company put into administration.

Giles Parkinson

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Coal giant snaps up solar thermal project in landmark deal for long duration storage technology

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Coal giant snaps up solar thermal project in landmark deal for long duration storage technology

AGL snaps up a newly approved concentrated solar thermal project as it considers long duration storage options in first grid to reach 100 pct net renewables.

Giles Parkinson