Australian energy tech startup RayGen has officially opened a 4 MW solar array and long-duration energy storage project in the state of Victoria. It describes it as the world’s “highest-efficiency PV project” operating at utility scale.

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) says that 248 GW of proposed generation projects, storage installations, transmission developments, and government energy programs have the potential to address many of the risks in its latest market forecast – if they are delivered to schedule.

Australian’s Incat Tasmania is building the world’s largest all-electric ship at its shipyards in Hobart. The 130-metre-long vessel is to be fitted with a 40 MWh battery energy storage system that will power a series of electric propulsion system and waterjets.

A Japanese team is working on a solar water splitting system with a 12% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency, while UK researchers have identified the reason why graphene’s dense crystalline structure is much more permeable to protons.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, has teamed up with RFC Ambrian to form a new company to commercialize electrolysis tech. CSIRO said the aim is to produce hydrogen with 30% less electricity than existing alkaline and polymer electrolyte membrane technologies.

Chelion Australia, an energy storage solutions specialist, has developed a new all-in-one lithium iron phosphate battery cabinet for commercial applications.

Australian energy giant AGL has officially opened its first operational grid-scale battery – the 250 MW/250 MWh facility at its Torrens Island power station site in South Australia.

Sydney-based wholesale energy software supplier Energy One has suffered a data breach, mere days after an Australian government-funded research body warned of potential cyber risks for the nation’s energy grids due to foreign-made solar technologies.

Clean Energy Finance Corp. (CEFC), the Australian government’s green bank, has invested a record AUD 1.2 billion ($770 million) in large-scale renewables projects over the past financial year, but it says that “a lot more” needs to be done to reach 82% renewables by 2030.

A group of Australian researchers say they have confirmed the benefits of combining rooftop solar installations with ‘green’ roofs with new research showing the combination increased solar generation by as much as 107% during peak periods.