Australia’s battery storage contracts shift from ‘physical tolls’ toward commoditised products
Australia’s BESS market evolves from physical tolls to commoditised contracts as spreads compress & investor return expectations rise to 14%.
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Battery storage investors ‘feeling the pinch’ as arbitrage spreads narrow across Australia’s NEM
BESS developers who built business cases on assumptions of faster coal plant closures are now absorbing the consequences of that timeline slipping.
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US data centre power goes distributed: Sunrun signs VPP deal with Google supplier Voltus
Sunrun has agreed with distributed energy resource platform Voltus to support its Bring Your Own Capacity (BYOC) programmes for AI hyperscalers.
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CESA’s Scott Murtishaw on safety, misinformation, and California’s BESS milestones
Scott Murtishaw, executive director at the California Energy Storage Alliance, discusses local opposition, safety misconceptions, and why the state’s containerised projects have proven safe.
Building Technology People Can Trust
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Invinity confirms EPC contract award for 2.1GWh ‘landmark’ flow battery in Switzerland
Invinity Energy Systems has hired an EPC partner for its gigawatt-hour-scale vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage project in Laufenberg, Switzerland.
Quinbrook taps GE Vernova and CATL for the third stage of Australia’s largest battery storage system
GE Vernova and CATL selected for 1,216MWh Supernode Stage 3 in Queensland, which will expand Australia’s largest battery storage system.
Poetry for Engineers: Safe Distance
How do I touch youacross the ocean,across cold depthswhere light travels through glass. Not copper—fibers. Optical. Through liquid glass, through flickering lightthat carries you in fragments. Light broken into pulses. You say: it’s easier this way. What are we missing…