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Canadian Solar’s storage unit launches 5 MWh battery The battery unit of the Chinese PV manufacturer said its new large-scale battery has a lifecycle of more than 12,000 cycles. The system has a nominal capacity of 5 MWh and a roundtrip efficiency of up...

A 12,000 cycles 25yr life grid battery.
That must drop the overall LCOS (per MWh in and out) quite a bit?
www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/05/07/c...

Not-for-profit secures federal funding for three new community batteries Melbourne not-for-profit secures federal government funding to roll out three new community batteries in partnership with a renewables focused retailer.

reneweconomy.com.au/not-for-prof...

Sungrow and BYD progress huge BESS projects in Saudi Arabia and Chile Sungrow and BYD have provided updates on their huge BESS projects in Saudi Arabia and Chile, which combined total nearly 16GWh of capacity.

"Sungrow manufactured 7.8GWh of BESS for Saudi project in 58 days"
Wow..
www.energy-storage.news/sungrow-and-...

Leapting robot completes install of 10,000 PV modules An AI-driven solar module-mounting robot has wrapped up its first commercial installation project in the Australian market, deploying almost 10,000 modules in less than 10 weeks.

This might speed up Australia's PV roll out a bit?
www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/04/23/l...

Greenwashing, greenhushing and greenwishing Don’t fall victim to these ESG reporting traps

TIL a new word.
Greenhushing.
kpmg.com/us/en/media/...

The NEM 1 year rolling average has hit 40.0% renewable energy.
Sat at 39%+ for quite a while.

NEM 1 year AV still under 40% Renewables, at 39.8%.
Been close to 40% for soooo long but a tough number to get past.
Must be time to start a poll on the date it will reach 40%?

Vikram Solar expands PV module capacity to 4.5 GW Vikram Solar has expanded its PV module production capacity to 4.5 GW with the addition of a 1 GW line at Falta facility in West Bengal.

Nice to see the supply chains broadening.

www.pv-magazine-india.com/2025/02/20/v...

Pacific Green sells South Australian battery park for $460 million British cleantech solutions company Pacific Green has inked a $460 million agreement to sell its 250 MW / 500 MWh Limestone Coast North battery energy park development to clean energy investor Intera ...

A$460m sale for a completed 500MWh grid battery is a handy data point for those interested.

www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/02/21/p...

Australia-US Researcher Exchange Network Electrify your research in the USA: apply for a grant to join the Australia-US Battery Researcher Exchange Network

CSIRO Grants of up to A$30k to go and do some battery research in USA for 1 to 3 months.

www.csiro.au/battery-rese...

Invinity picks ‘ideal partner’ Frontier Power for LDES cap-and-floor scheme bids Invinity Energy Systems and Frontier Power have partnered to deploy vanadium flow batteries under the UK Long Duration Energy Storage procurement process.

A possible large play on VRFB, UK, Scotland manufacture, Canada tech.
www.energy-storage.news/invinity-pic...

Breaking: Major wind farm secures lease agreement - Ecogeneration New South Wales' Minns Government has signed a lease agreement with wind farm developer WestWind Energy, paving the way for the proposed Lake Victoria Wind Farm in south-west New South Wales.

A$3.8Bn for 1GW of wind and 1.5GWh of storage.
www.ecogeneration.com.au/breaking-maj...

NEM PHES operators increasing their market participation.
Ref: AEMO QED Q4/2024 p39

Pumped Hydro in Australia -- State of Play 2025 Discover the latest developments in pumped hydro energy storage across Australia, including key findings, project types, and challenges faced by developers.

Great PHES Australian review (part 1) by Lawrence Molloy.
Looking fwd to part 2.

Pumped Hydro in Australia -- State of Play 2025

www.linkedin.com/pulse/pumped...

33.84% efficiency PV cell.
Still increasing the %.
www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/01/07/j...

SGIO...?

I am awaiting the outcomes of the Vic gov & c4net Enhanced System Planning project.
Then we will have a good idea of how much work is required by the DNSPs to augment their grid to meet our needs..

Indeed, it will have to identify a competitive advantage.

Australia has a lot of gas deposits so hopefully if this technology is viable we will have quite a few site options.

Half of distribution transformers are approaching end of life Utilities buying distribution transformers face waiting times and higher prices, as do solar developers needing similar step-up transformers. Distributed solar can extend the useful life of distrib…

@nicknet.bsky.social our favourite subject.
NREL suggests that PV by reducing load on distribution Transformers (Tx) might be extending Tx lifetimes.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/01/07/h...

Virtual power plants can compete in the energy market from 2027: AEMC The Australian Energy Market Commission has released a final determination to allow virtual power plants to compete directly with large-scale generators in the energy market, scheduled to begin in 202...

Gee May 2027 is still a lot of sleeps away... 😕
www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/01/09/v...

For one at least...
reneweconomy.com.au/land-deal-si...

US DOE offers US$1.76 billion loan to Hydrostor for A-CAES California project The US DOE's LPO has made a conditional commitment for a loan to LDES developer and operator Hydrostor of up to US$1.76 billion.

It would certainly be good to have one of these very large 8hr compressed air storage systems built at scale to allow proper evaluation.
www.energy-storage.news/doe-offers-u...
More than A$2bn should ensure that!

Masdar, EWEC announce 5 GW/19 GWh solar-plus-storage project in Abu Dhabi Masdar and Emirates Water and Electricity Co. (EWEC) plan to build a $6 billion, 5 GW/19 GWh solar-plus-storage project in Abu Dhabi, with operations set to start by 2027.

US$6bn seems stunning cheap for 5GW of PV & 19GWh of storage.
Definitely a project to watch.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/14/m...

A closer look at Al Dhafra, Abu Dhabi’s 2 GW desert wonder The 2 GW Al Dhafra solar park covers an area of 21.5 square km in the sandy outskirts of the suburb Dhafra near Abu Dhabi. <b>pv magazine</b> visited to get the lowdown on the plant’s specs and how it...

2GW of PV with a 30yr performance guarantee. Big project.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/15/a...

123V
248V...?

I hope those "PF" numbers are not power factor?

see other post from me, i was wrong, i missed the 40kWh where there was two numbers.
thank you for poking the right answer back to me.

my error, apologies, i have downloaded and compared in 30min detail and over a few months there were 40kwh of imports recorded during 30min periods that also recorded an export.
the diff' was so small i had missed it before.
thanks for the link to the spec that confirms that this is correct.

ok, i have downloaded my smart meter data again and will check, i am wondering if it that my pv is so small (only 1500w) i just can't see it.