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Storage warming up in Australia

Battery Storage: A lot of ink has been spilled in recent months about Australias emergence as an early global testing ground for PV applications with battery storage. The excitement seemed to reach fever pitch this summer, when SolarCity CTO Peter Rive identified the country as a key future market in which batteries could affordably be deployed alongside rooftop PV systems.

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Brian Publicover

19 Sep 2016

Recent developments at utility scale have ramped up expectations for battery storage in Australia. Conergy, for example, started building on a project in August that will pair the German group’s 1.4 MW/5.3MWh CHESS lithium-ion storage solutions with a 13 MW solar array in the state of Queensland.“We saw a unique opportunity to be on the …

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