EnergyReader · 2026-08-05 06:36

Australia's Big Battery Build Outruns the Duck Curve, Reshaping NEM Price Signals

By EnergyReader Newsroom · August 5, 2026

Australia added a record 2 gigawatts of utility-scale battery capacity during 2025, a 233 percent jump on the prior year that pushed the country past every market except China and the United States, according to the Clean Energy Council's latest tally. The build-out took Australia to third place globally on installed big battery capacity, a ranking that would have seemed implausible when the first grid-scale lithium projects were struggling through commissioning just a few years ago.

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