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New five-hour battery reaches financial close, next to existing gas generator in renewable hotspot
Another five-hour battery reaches financial close, this one to piggy back over an existing gas connection in Australia's most advanced renewable state.
Energy Insiders Podcast: Why batteries are getting bigger and marrying solar
Sam Reynolds, the head of Octopus Australia, on why he hopes to build the country’s biggest battery, and the emergence of solar-battery hybrids. Plus: AGL and Origin’s fossil fuelled profits, with a green tinge.
The little battery that could pave the way for ageing coal generators to be shut down on schedule
Concern about system security has already delayed the closure of Australia's biggest coal generator. But a landmark battery project may provide a quicker and cheaper solution.
Renewables account for more than 55 pct of Spain’s energy mix in 2025, and in first month of 2026
Renewable energy accounted for over half of the total energy mix in Spain during 2025, with the trend continuing into the first month of 2026.
Australia’s home battery boom risks locking households into closed ecosystems
Many households only realise after installation they’ve bought a battery system that is locked to a single manufacturer’s software.
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“Copy and paste:” Fortescue says installing big batteries are the easy part of its plans to reach real zero
Installing the North Star battery was simpler and cheaper and than most other projects in the mining company's job list to reach real zero by 2030.
Fortescue launches its first electric locomotives – with batteries the size of more than 200 Tesla EVs
Fortescue has launched the first of its massive battery trains, which it says the hardest part of its goal to eliminate fossil fuels by 2030.
Coal giant’s first gigawatt-scale battery charges up, guided by some in-house algorithms
The first gigawatt scale battery built by AGL Energy, which remains the country’s biggest generator of coal fired power, has recently begun charging and discharging from the grid, and will be guided by algorithms developed by the company’s own in-house team.
Australia’s clean energy transition has been powered by people. Solar for renters is the next chapter
With the right policies, we could double rooftop solar in Australia backed by storage by 2035 and do it in a way that includes renters, not excludes them.