Fluence’s Matt Grover, director, energy markets, and Sam Markham, growth and commercial strategy, APAC, discuss the growing opportunity for hybrid renewables-plus-storage projects in Australia.

Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) is entering a new phase, driven by the rapid expansion of renewable energy and the challenge of integrating these assets into an already constrained grid. In this evolving landscape, hybrid battery energy storage systems (BESS) will become critical enablers of Australia’s clean energy future.

There are currently three main configurations for BESS in the NEM (as shown in the diagram below): standalone batteries, co-located batteries with renewables where the assets may be near one another but each has their own transmission connection, and the emerging hybrid BESS.

Hybrid BESS combines renewable generation, such as wind or solar, with battery storage, operating together behind a single grid connection point. While there are not any operational hybrid BESS assets yet in the NEM, several projects have reached financial close and are under construction.

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