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Australia · 19 Oct 2026

A Geelong campus is running a 100 kWh lead-acid battery - the Sydney factory copy is still a plan, 600 mm from the wall

The NZ Herald reported on 12 October 2026 that ArcActive's container at Deakin University's Waurn Ponds campus, and a second unit planned for an unnamed Sydney factory, are each 100 kWh. pv magazine Australia reported on 16 October that the Geelong pilot is switched on, inside a 7.25 MW microgrid, and connected to Origin's virtual power plant. No price and no savings figure are published.

  1. Ireland · 19 Oct 2026

    Ireland doubled a workplace loan pot to €1 billion - renewable energy is named, and the extra green discount is 0.25%

    On 12 October 2026 the Growth and Sustainability Loan Scheme went from €500 million to €1 billion, open until 30 June 2029. Loans run from €25,000 to €3 million for 7 to 10 years, unsecured up to €500,000. The department names renewable energy as a use. SBCI takes another 0.25% off the rate when the spend qualifies as climate or environmental work. It is a loan, not the SEAI grant.

  2. United States · 18 Oct 2026

    A La Fox factory plans a 5 MWh battery on site - ComEd's storage rebate is $300 or $250 a kilowatt-hour, and this project has not been paid it

    Richardson Electronics and ComEd said on 12 October 2026 that a 5 MWh demonstration battery is going in at the La Fox, Illinois factory. The release says qualifying storage can get up to $300 per kWh. ComEd's 2026 terms pay $300 to homes and small business, and $250 to larger commercial accounts, and the storage rebate sits with generation. No rebate for this project has been published.

  3. Markets · 18 Oct 2026

    Grid batteries set the NEM spot price in 36% of intervals in the June quarter, up from 17%, and the discharge price fell to $107

    AEMO's June quarter 2026 report says grid batteries set the National Electricity Market spot price in 36% of dispatch intervals, up from 17% a year earlier. When battery discharge set the price, the average was $107/MWh, down from $478. These are grid batteries, not the box on a factory wall.

Also filed

  1. Croatia puts €30 million on the table for farm and food-plant solar and batteries - first in, first paid, from 9 November

    Croatia · 17 Oct 2026

  2. The grid couldn't give a Barcelona factory more power, so it bought a 3.87 MWh battery instead of waiting

    Storage · 17 Oct 2026

  3. A Galway medical-device plant built a 6 MWh battery and 4 MW of generators around its solar - and the installer behind it now sells through Energia

    Ireland · 16 Oct 2026

  4. Honda Malaysia put 5.6 MWp of solar and a 5.8 MWh battery on its factory - and it still covers only about a tenth of the power bill

    Malaysia · 16 Oct 2026

  5. A Woodstock car-parts factory put in a 3.6 MW battery for two hours of peak cut - financed by someone else

    Canada · 15 Oct 2026

  6. US buyers now pay about 20% more for Chinese storage cells before tariffs - freight flipped the map

    Markets · 15 Oct 2026

  7. A Riverwood factory warehouse put in a 200 kWh battery on a 50 kW inverter - four hours of push, and a A$15,000-a-year estimate

    Australia · 14 Oct 2026

  8. A Vermont chip factory added about 6 MW of solar and a 16 MW battery - and the battery is the part that pays

    United States · 14 Oct 2026

  9. Varaždin's technology park put 60 kW of solar on its roof so it would not lift tenants' rent

    Croatia · 14 Oct 2026

  10. A Johor precast concrete factory put 573 kW of solar and a 522 kWh battery on site - about two hours of battery at full push, built in roughly three months

    Malaysia · 13 Oct 2026

  11. France's biggest battery published its first report card - 145 full cycles in 125 days and 70.5 GWh fed back from a 240 MW / 480 MWh site

    Storage · 13 Oct 2026

  12. Alberta's biggest battery is online - Northland's Jurassic box is 80 MW / 160 MWh, two hours at full power, with a 15-year offtake covering all of it

    Canada · 12 Oct 2026

  13. European C&I battery shelves may get crowded into early 2027 - utility-scale prices look steadier

    Markets · 12 Oct 2026

  14. DENSO put 5.25 MWac of solar beside its Athens Tennessee plant - more than 10,000 modules, about 14% of the plant's yearly power, no battery named

    United States · 11 Oct 2026

  15. NSW cleared a 125 MW / 1,000 MWh eight-hour battery near Narrabri - Energy Vault owns it, Enervest delivers, LTESA runs 14 years

    Australia · 11 Oct 2026

  16. Batteries now beat gas peakers on cost in 43 markets. A battery still runs out after four hours.

    Markets · 10 Oct 2026

  17. Germany's latest innovation auction went entirely to solar-plus-storage - 480 MW at an average €0.0514 per kWh

    Markets · 10 Oct 2026

  18. JA put a 125 kW / 261 kWh solar-plus-battery cabinet on European pre-order - one box for panels, storage and 10 ms backup

    Storage · 10 Oct 2026

  19. Buying green power through CRESS just got a cheaper grid fee: 14 sen per kWh, down from 20 - and a RM34m solar build lands 19 days later

    Malaysia · 8 Oct 2026

  20. Four First Nations want to power an Ontario gold mine with an 8.5 MW solar farm - the permit takes longer than the build

    Canada · 8 Oct 2026

  21. Two Long Island batteries are switched off over a 2023 fire - New York regulators point at the fire suppressant, not the batteries

    United States · 8 Oct 2026

  22. Ausgrid will buy the solar a warehouse roof can't use - 16-year contracts, about 8c a kilowatt-hour expected, in two trial areas

    Australia · 7 Oct 2026

  23. Three Spanish factories now run 62.5 MWh of batteries beside 34 MWp of solar - the first three of ten in a 366 MWh job

    Storage · 7 Oct 2026

  24. A landlord with up to 240 offices, warehouses and clinics handed its roofs to an energy company - about 70 MW of solar and 300 MWh of batteries, with no capex for tenants

    Australia · 6 Oct 2026

  25. Ireland's business solar grant nearly doubles from today - 45% of eligible costs for nine months, up from about 23%

    Ireland · 6 Oct 2026

  26. Ireland puts money behind home batteries again from 6 October - and says businesses using the solar support can cut energy costs by up to €300,000 a year

    Ireland · 5 Oct 2026

  27. NSW's Waratah Super Battery hit final commercial ops - 850 MW on an old coal site, built to catch grid shocks in milliseconds

    Australia · 5 Oct 2026

  28. A US tech company booked Malaysian firm solar for its data centres - 680 MW of panels and a four-hour battery, on a twenty-one year term sheet

    Malaysia · 2 Oct 2026

  29. Queensland's wholesale power price fell 40% in a year - the state generator credits the battery build-out

    Australia · 2 Oct 2026

  30. FRV just switched on a 100 MW two-hour battery in southwest Victoria - its first big standalone box in Australia

    Australia · 1 Oct 2026

  31. A Victorian hybrid solar-plus-battery hub just hired its Stage 1 builder - Gamuda takes the Mortlake EPC

    Australia · 30 Sep 2026

  32. Mayo just cleared a revised plan for an 80 MW four-hour battery next to an SSE gas station - FID is still SSE's call

    Ireland · 30 Sep 2026

  33. A Moroccan phosphate mine switched on a five-hour battery next to its solar - lunchtime sun for the night shift on the plant

    Storage · 29 Sep 2026

  34. Spain will put a new capacity charge on power bills - and pay factories that can cut load when the grid is stressed

    Markets · 29 Sep 2026

  35. From Wednesday, a factory roof between 100 kW and 1 MW can use the same small-scale certificate paper as a house

    Australia · 28 Sep 2026

  36. Ireland will stop charging grid batteries like a factory when they fill up - from 1 October they pay the generator fee instead

    Ireland · 28 Sep 2026

  37. Amazon booked a four-hour Victorian battery without building it - Australia's first corporate storage toll outside the energy industry

    Australia · 25 Sep 2026

  38. Croatia's parliament passed power market changes that push business PPAs and strengthen self-producers

    Croatia · 25 Sep 2026

  39. Greece put €8.15 million toward workplace batteries next to solar. Most of the programme budget is still sitting unused.

    Storage · 24 Sep 2026

  40. US commercial solar got 5.6% dearer in a year, to $1.77 a watt, even as module prices fell

    United States · 24 Sep 2026

  41. Victoria's state utility bought into a long battery - and booked half its power for fifteen years for business customers

    Australia · 24 Sep 2026

  42. Arizona's big utility booked a four-hour battery for twenty years - and the banks closed $220 million behind it

    United States · 23 Sep 2026

  43. Croatia signed 47 business battery grants worth EUR 16.3 million, using only about 30% of the money on offer

    Croatia · 23 Sep 2026

  44. Malaysia publishes a fixed grid fee for corporate solar that can deliver for four hours

    Malaysia · 23 Sep 2026

  45. A German steel mill bought solar - and the right to run the batteries when the plant needs power

    Markets · 22 Sep 2026

  46. Google banked leftover solar in batteries so clean power showed up in the hours it actually used

    United States · 22 Sep 2026

  47. Australia switched on its first eight-hour grid battery. It fills up at noon and runs into the night.

    Australia · 21 Sep 2026

  48. Istria switched on its first public-building solar roof, 100 kW on Umag's health centre, with three more on the way

    Croatia · 21 Sep 2026

  49. US workplaces bought batteries in bulk last quarter. The install record was not only utilities.

    United States · 21 Sep 2026

  50. Canberra’s small-scale battery discount stops at 100 kWh. NSW’s workplace voucher goes to 30 MWh.

    Australia · 19 Sep 2026

  51. Ireland’s panel grant is not the payment for leftover noon.

    Ireland · 19 Sep 2026

  52. Malaysia closed new applications on the old one-for-one meter. The 2026 workplace path is ATAP.

    Malaysia · 19 Sep 2026

  53. The Australian battery discount is paid in traded paper. Tuesday’s price is not your contract.

    Markets · 19 Sep 2026

  54. Ireland will help pay for workplace solar panels. The battery is a separate bill.

    Ireland · 18 Sep 2026

  55. NSW will knock money off a workplace battery. The published cut is a range. Your quote is a different number.

    Australia · 18 Sep 2026

  56. Meta added a 144 MW Texas solar farm to its Apex deals, taking the green certificates while the grid gets the power

    United States · 17 Sep 2026

  57. A Croatian oil factory switched on 3.5 MW of solar and a 4.5 MW / 9 MWh battery - self-use first, surplus into the box

    Croatia · 16 Sep 2026

  58. If the lights are still on after sunset, a battery is how lunchtime sun works the night shift.

    Storage · 15 Sep 2026

  59. Malaysia pays a business a bulk rate for leftover lunchtime sun. That is not the rate on your bill.

    Malaysia · 15 Sep 2026

  60. The Malaysian home rebate tops out at RM3,000. It does not pay for a factory roof.

    Malaysia · 15 Sep 2026

  61. The US set final duties on solar cells from India, Indonesia and Laos, up to 249% combined for India

    United States · 14 Sep 2026

  62. US commercial solar installs rose 11% in the second quarter while home solar hit a five-year low

    United States · 10 Sep 2026

  63. Croatian power traded below zero at Sunday lunchtime, while neighbours' evening prices passed EUR 225

    Croatia · 6 Sep 2026

  64. Croatia's first home battery grant filled in about a day: 9,320 applications, 1,460 for batteries

    Croatia · 4 Sep 2026

  65. Illinois approved 600 MW of new four-hour batteries, but the PJM zone got only 80 MW of its 588 MW target

    United States · 3 Sep 2026

  66. A new US order on foreign grid equipment puts battery projects first in line for delays, BloombergNEF says

    United States · 1 Sep 2026

  67. Croatia lets standalone batteries get permits in industrial zones before local plans catch up

    Croatia · 28 Aug 2026

  68. The US widened its block on new foreign-made grid inverters to cover wired connections, with a carve-out for 45X makers

    United States · 24 Aug 2026

  69. New Jersey proposed paying home batteries for grid duty, and says business batteries at critical sites come next

    United States · 19 Aug 2026

  70. Nevada's main utility signed for 25 years of solar with a four-hour battery: 400 MW of panels, 1,600 MWh of storage

    United States · 18 Aug 2026

  71. Tesla filed plans for a $10.1 billion solar factory campus in Texas, with production from 2029

    United States · 12 Aug 2026

  72. Dubrovnik airport plans solar roofs over its car parks and a 3.3 MWh battery, with no power sold to the grid

    Croatia · 11 Aug 2026

  73. Vukovar's water company is building solar with a battery at its wastewater plant and expects over EUR 300,000 a year off power costs

    Croatia · 11 Aug 2026

  74. A 5.3-hour battery is going up next to Ohio's data centre cluster: 200 MW / 1.06 GWh, the biggest on the PJM grid

    United States · 7 Aug 2026

  75. From 4 December, imported solar modules in the US carry a $0.38 per watt price floor plus a 15% tariff

    United States · 7 Aug 2026

  76. Orsted switched on a 250 MW / 500 MWh battery beside a Texas solar farm, and runs it separately from the panels

    United States · 6 Aug 2026

  77. HEP confirmed its Sukosan solar plant comes with a battery of up to 200 MWh, and the estimate rose to EUR 65 million

    Croatia · 5 Aug 2026

  78. Texas paused its data centre hook-up queue: 474 GW of requests, about 90% of them data centres

    United States · 5 Aug 2026

  79. Costco took a Florida distribution centre off the grid with solar and batteries, and nobody said how big the system is

    United States · 28 Jul 2026

  80. Croatia sold 312,171 green power certificates in one day, at about EUR 1.12 to 1.46 each

    Croatia · 28 Jul 2026

  81. PJM wants new data centres that bring no power of their own to cut back first near a grid emergency

    United States · 28 Jul 2026

  82. Tesla signed to buy about 1 TWh a year from an Arizona solar farm with a four-hour battery

    United States · 28 Jul 2026

  83. Croatia's first energy community is live: 17 members share one fire station roof, no battery

    Croatia · 27 Jul 2026

  84. Croatian power traded below zero for 257 hours last year, and the regulator reads it as a case for batteries

    Croatia · 23 Jul 2026

  85. Solar and batteries were 91% of new US power capacity in the first quarter, and California's batteries met 36% of demand at one point in July

    United States · 23 Jul 2026

  86. A Karlovac pasta maker paired a new line with 160 kW of solar and reports over 15% off its power use in the trial

    Croatia · 22 Jul 2026

  87. Croatia's regulator adopted a written list of what blocks companies from using their own solar power

    Croatia · 21 Jul 2026

  88. Croatia's passenger railway will charge battery trains at a station with its own solar and storage

    Croatia · 16 Jul 2026

  89. Google booked the first two phases of America's largest solar-plus-storage build - and the box is part of the deal

    United States · 15 Jul 2026

  90. An Istrian label printer put solar on its roof: 60 MWh in the first three months, EU-backed, no battery

    Croatia · 10 Jul 2026

  91. Croatia connected 218 MW of new solar in six months and still imported a third of its June power

    Croatia · 10 Jul 2026

  92. Croatia's regulator says the battery rulebook follows a new power law this autumn, with better terms from early 2027

    Croatia · 8 Jul 2026

  93. The US solar tax credit's start-building deadline has passed, and late projects now race a December 2027 finish line

    United States · 8 Jul 2026

  94. INA finished 11 MW of solar inside its Rijeka refinery, and the power is for a hydrogen machine

    Croatia · 2 Jul 2026

  95. Croatia opened its first household battery grant. The workplace lesson sits next door in the business call.

    Croatia · 30 Jun 2026

  96. Croatia finally priced the grid hook-up. Hybrid solar-plus-battery sites now pay on the higher of import or export.

    Croatia · 25 Jun 2026

  97. A Medulin tourism site is building 5 MWp of solar and a 5 MW / 10 MWh battery on an old clay pit

    Croatia · 29 May 2026

  98. Croatia's distributor named three ways to connect a battery. Co-located storage still may not charge from the grid.

    Croatia · 22 Jan 2026