Australia

Sumitomo Corporation and Rio Tinto partner with Australian Government's ARENA to build 2.5 MW on-site electrolyzer in Yarwun plant, Gladstone, Australia. This project is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 3,000 tonnes per year and provide an opportunity for the use of hydrogen in calcination process at scale globally. Construction to begin in 2024 and complete by 2025.

Victory Hill Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities (GSEO) completes phase 2 of the solar and storage hybrid system in Australia with the addition of a 4.95MW two-hour battery energy storage system. GSEO continues to optimize the grid connection for better renewable power availability.

The Australian government has announced a Capacity Investment Scheme to increase renewables in New South Wales to 6 GW. The NSW Energy Roadmap's firming tender will increase from 380 MW to 930 MW and bids representing more than 3.3 GW have already been submitted. Final results announced by the end of September, with the next auction to be announced by October in South Australia and Victoria.

BlackRock has raised $500 million to build the largest grid-scale battery project in the Southern Hemisphere, with 850 megawatts and 1680 megawatt-hours of capacity. Rio Tinto is also increasing demand for battery metals to meet the goals of the Glasgow Climate Pact.

Pacific Energy has been awarded a contract to integrate 62MW of clean energy into an existing power system at an Australian gold mine. The hybrid power system will reduce emissions by 50% and feature in-house control systems, BESS, HV Switch Room & PV ring main units. Works start in July 2021, completion in early 2025.

Yadlamalka Energy has commissioned Australia's first 2-MW/8-MWh vanadium flow battery (VFB) as part of the AUD-22-million Spencer Energy project. With funding from ARENA, the battery will charge from solar energy and off-peak grid imports. A milestone for Australia's energy storage market, Spencer Energy is revolutionising renewable energy technology.

The 1400 MW, 2.8 GWh storage project will supply 2 hours of backup storage to the NSW grid.

Australia's biggest grid-connected industrial microgrid has been commissioned at the Ikea store in Adelaide, it was announced recently.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has unveiled plans to build an enormous green hydrogen manufacturing complex in South Australia's Eyre Peninsula underpinned by roughly 14 GW of solar and wind generation.

One significant problem with renewable resource resources like wind, solar as well as hydro is intermittency. This suggests they can not be counted on constantly given that, for example, the sun could stop beaming or it might be a still, windless day.

South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp will sign up with Australian green hydrogen producer Infinite Green Energy (IGE) in a project to produce up to 300 tonnes of green hydrogen daily in Western Australia.

Australia's Federation Asset Management Pty Ltd and also Edify Energy (Edify) have actually concluded the construction of Tesla-equipped co-located battery storage projects completing 150 MW/300 MWh in New South Wales, Australia.

Swedish renewables developer OX2 AB (STO: OX2) on Monday stated it has actually completed the AUD-126-million (USD 84.7 m/EUR 76.9 m) procurement of Australian peer ESCO Pacific, including a 1.42-GW project development portfolio to its platform.

The eight-hour-long duration battery storage system is most likely to be Australia's longest-duration energy storage device.

The 1.4 GW renewables tender allocation anticipates an investment of about A$ 2.5 billion in the state. RWE has been granted with 50 MW/ 400 MWh Limondale battery energy storage project.