The status of and opportunities for utility-scale battery storage in Australia: A regulatory and market perspective

Zsuzsanna Csereklyei, Anne Kallies and Carlos Diaz Valdivia ()

Utilities Policy, 2021, vol. 73, issue C

Abstract: Australia's electricity market is rapidly adding renewable energy generation. Utility-scale batteries could have a major role in facilitating these transitions; however, their deployment is still largely state-subsidized. We summarize the current and future roles for batteries from a legal-economic perspective in the context of Australia's electricity market framework. We find that the future of batteries in Australia is not only a function of the large-scale deployment of renewables, their cost development and the comparative future cost of competing gas turbines but also of national electricity market and state policy reforms focusing on reliability.

Keywords: Utility-scale batteries; Electricity market regulation; Australia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K32 Q42 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2021.101313

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