Australia desk

Australia

State voucher. Federal small-scale paper. Read the size line before the quote.

  1. Grid batteries set the NEM spot price in 48% of September-quarter intervals, wholesale power averaged $63, and they beat gas in the evening peak

    26 Oct 2026

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

    19 Oct 2026

  3. 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

    18 Oct 2026

  4. 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

    14 Oct 2026

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

    11 Oct 2026

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

    10 Oct 2026

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

    7 Oct 2026

  8. 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

    6 Oct 2026

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

    5 Oct 2026

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

    2 Oct 2026

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

    1 Oct 2026

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

    30 Sep 2026

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

    28 Sep 2026

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

    25 Sep 2026

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

    24 Sep 2026

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

    21 Sep 2026

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

    19 Sep 2026

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

    19 Sep 2026

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

    18 Sep 2026