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A large South Australian battery has stood idle for weeks because part-owner Zen Energy entered voluntary administration, triggering its market suspension, while its hoped-for sale to commodities trader Gunvor collapsed.
Listed Perth developer Frontier Energy has locked in $110 million of equity pledges for the first stage of its Waroona solar and battery project in Western Australia, with more funding still required.
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Ampyr has locked in bank debt above A$340m, a Zen Energy virtual offtake and Fluence as battery supplier for its first large battery in NSW, with a 6 GWh storage goal for 2030.
RenewEconomy reports Edify Energy's Koorangie battery has begun exporting power in Victoria's north-west. Italy's Sosteneo owns the project, enlarged to 185 MW after a $119 million state fund injection.
ARENA has awarded UNSW $1.7 million for Project CICCADA, a $4.3 million research effort analysing data from rooftop solar, batteries and electric vehicles to inform integration of consumer energy resources into the grid.
A federal minister flagged work on a grid data exchange, with ARENA funding AEMO and AusNet's design effort and backing GridWise Energy Solutions' software to connect renewables.
ARENA grants GridWise Energy Solutions $337,000 toward its Dynamic Model Validation project, an online platform that lets renewable generators pre-check their models for faster grid entry.
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A rolling roundup of Australian energy-sector job moves, listing dozens of executives, directors and ministers joining or leaving utilities, regulators, developers and industry bodies between May and December 2023.
ARENA grants $1.43 million to Reactive Technologies for a Victorian trial of its real-time grid inertia measurement technology, with support from DEECA, AEMO, Neoen and the Melbourne Energy Institute.