Just recently, a winning combination of the Tesla Powerwall and a 5kW rooftop solar panel was capable of delivering electricity of about the same cost as grid power.

Logan City has fully embraced battery storage. This time around its Council has installed solar systems and Tesla Powerpack to purify the water supplied within the city.

Build Your Dream (BYD), the largest electric vehicle and storage battery manufacturer in China has intensified efforts to acquire a 25 percent of the Australian battery market after realizing a remarkable 8-10 percent share in its year one of operation in the Australian storage batteries market.

Regulators around the world are gearing up for a highly competitive battery storage market as more oil companies predict that electric cars are bound to be the next big thing.

Australia is set for an energy storage explosion thanks to the plummeting costs of energy storage technologies like battery storage and solar thermal. According to a report dubbed Fully Charged: Renewables and storage powering Australia, the Climate Council provides the scope of advances in the energy storage space and emphasises that the cost of installing solar and batteries has never been lower for the average Australian household, and further reductions in cost are expected over the next couple of years.

In its quest to achieve a 50 per cent renewables target by 2030, the Top End is set to install the second biggest battery in the world.

Christoph Ostermann, the founder and CEO of Sonnen Battery, a reputable German battery storage developer is a lucky man—just when he was about to reveal his strategy for putting Australian utilities “out of business”, the energy utilities announced—unanimously, an almost 20 per cent increase in the cost of grid energy.

Energy experts have warned of a possible over-supply of solar energy to the grid during periods of low demand however the question is, will this lead to another solar feed-in tariff cutback?

Tasmania’s low-income households are a happy lot expecting to benefit significantly from a Labor solar scheme aimed at cutting their power bills through the installation of solar panels and battery storage.

Yorke Peninsula in South Australia is set to install a new battery storage system to bolster the state’s grid stability. The installation of the 30 MW grid-scale battery system becomes the second largest energy storage project in the state.

South Australia will soon be housing the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery following a momentous signing of an agreement between Tesla and SA’s State Government. Interestingly, Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO has pledged to set it up in 100 days, or it’s free.

Over 100 Canberra households and businesses have fitted the hugely subsidised battery storage systems under the program “the ACT’s Next Generation Renewables Energy Storage Grants”.

Latest reports from the ACT state reveal a myriad of actions by the Government aimed at driving down emissions from greenhouse gases and accelerating the adoption of clean energy sources across the Territory.

Canberra is at it again—this time installing highly subsidised next generation battery storage in both homes and businesses across its region. The Environment and Climate Change Minister in ACT Mr.

The scheme by WA Greens to support battery storage in the state is poised to benefit approximately 120,000 households and thousands more of businesses in the next five years.

South Australia has experienced a minor heatwave which experts say may increase wholesale electricity supply and prices, although AEMO’s insists there’s nothing to worry about and South Australians should remain calm and continue as normal.

The Victorian Labor government has invited expressions of interest to set up their 20MW battery storage system poised to become the first grid-scale battery storage plant of its kind in Australia.

In the coming decade, the conventional large utilities in Australia are likely to become extinct if Sonnen, the leading German domestic battery provider gets its way.

A great milestone towards developing a next-gen, all solid state lithium-ion battery has been attained using a ceramic electrolyte made of garnet. The development of the new lithium battery has been inspired by Venkataraman Thangadurai, a renowned professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Calgary, in conjunction with colleagues from the University of Maryland, College Park in the USA.

The future of battery storage looks promising given the impending increase in capacity to 250GW by 2030, according to the latest report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Take a moment and think about the number of Tesla Powerwall 2 or other household storage batteries South Australia needed to prevent its last power outage.

The island of Ta’u located more than 4,000 miles off the West Coast of the US in American Samoa. One of the largest challenges residents are faced with the is lack of reliable and affordable power thanks to power rationing and outages.

Bruce Mountain, energy consultancy CME director claims the Tesla Powerwall 2.0 and rooftop solar panels can effectively make Australian homes cost-competitive with grid-powered homes. Mountain took a look at a hypothetical home in Adelaide, which he approximated would consume about 4,800 kilowatts hours of energy each year.

As solar power systems combine with energy storage in a move to maintain it’s rapid uptake, distributed storage for solar will be an $8 billion market in the next decade.

The combination of solar integrated storage solutions and efficient grid technology emerging has started the age of energy storage. The battery storage sector’s rapidly progressing market over the last few years has stamped the beginning of a significant transition of how businesses, homeowners, utilities and government agencies use energy.

Researchers are saying they have discovered the manganese and lithium rich transition metal oxide structure, materials which could drastically change battery technology today. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers have used techniques such as spectroscopy and microscopy to solve the structure of the game-changing battery material which has been highly debatable since it was discovered 10 years ago.

The first markets for the Tesla Powerwall have been named, and Australia is one of them, with deliveries expected in 2015. This highly anticipated and much sought after residential battery storage system has been described by Tesla CEO Elon Musk as changing the “entire energy infrastructure of the world”.

It is expected that in roughly three years battery storage in Australian households will be ‘the norm’, thanks to it’s cost-effective nature. Enphase Energy, a technology company based in California, says that this change is because of the potential savings made when combining battery storage with rooftop solar systems.

WA company Western Power is considering taking small communities off-grid completely in order to save on network upgrade and extension costs. Recently, Western Power released a tender for a maximum of 10 stand alone power systems, which will include solar plus battery storage with additional diesel, to provide for smaller communities living in the Ravensthorpe region, approximately 500kms south-east of Perth.

According to a new report, battery storage systems could be being installed in Australian households at a huge rate of 55,000 per year within a decade.

Harvard researchers may have just found the answer to safer battery storage for solar-powered homes, and are unveiling an exciting prototype. As the wind turbine and solar panel market continues to grow and spread throughout the world, the need for power storing batteries to use on cloudy days steadily increases.

A hybrid solar system offers the best of both worlds: it can guarantee electricity supply from the grid and it can supply electricity from the batteries if the grid goes down.