Siemens JV eyes giant batteries for Australia’s grid


SYDNEY: Three years after Elon Musk took up a challenge to solve Australian power outages by building the world’s biggest battery, a Siemens AG venture wants to install even larger ones to bolster renewable investment in the nation.

Fluence, a partnership between Germany’s Siemens and Arlington, Virginia-based AES Corp, is proposing to build two giant lithium-ion batteries at strategic points on the transmission grid to allow better access for clusters of wind and solar plants.

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