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.

A renowned climate scientist Professor Tim Flannery has released a new book that lays emphasis on greater solar panel intake. The book titled ‘Sunlight and Seaweed’, explores several technological breakthroughs in the country’s quest to harness natural resources.

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.

Tesla, an innovative tech company setting the pace in the world of energy storage is certainly a force to reckon. The company has ramped up its production of the Powerwall 2, the newest model of their smart home battery pack.

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”.

The Queensland Government recently made announcements in regards to major solar and wind energy projects within the state. This process began with the signing of support deeds for various large-scale solar projects near Oakey, Collinsville and Longreach.

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.

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).

The first round of the Advanced Energy Challenge (AEC) for the New South Wales Government is inviting proposals on energy storage. The AEC will support projects focused on helping the state transit to a more secure, affordable, reliable and sustainable energy future.

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.

Australians are no longer able to count on revenue generated from excess solar energy feeding into the grid, so they are turning to energy storage solutions to keep excess energy for themselves.

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.

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.

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.

Innovative energy storage technology is revolutionising the way we are able to store and distribute renewable energy. Capacitors are devices which store small amounts of current static energy, rather than traditional storage of energy which uses a chemical reaction.

SunEdison, the solar PV giant, has recently announced that it is moving into solar power storage. The company has recently acquired the energy storage project origination team, project pipeline and four operating storage projects from Solar Grid Storage.

There is no doubt that 2014 was one of the best years in regards to positive energy storage. The prices of lithium-ion batteries are continually dropping and new technologies are surfacing, ensuring that the future will be littered with clean energy technologies.

Australia is an industrialized country and one of those where greenhouse gas emissions have gone through the roof as much as 29 tons per year. In the last 20 years amount of emissions that are generated per dollar of GDP are increased, this has made it emission intensive economy holder.