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Grid-scale batteries have until recently been predominantly used only to stabilize the frequency of electricity supply. But as prices have dropped dramatically in recent years and new chemistries like sodium-ion have come into the mainstream, batteries have started to replace coal power stations and even gas peaker plants. So, is the final death knell now being sounded for the combustion of fossil fuels?
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Reference Links
Renew Economy article about Collie
Renew Economy article about big batteries in South Australia
Clean Energy Australia 2025
https://cleanenergycouncil.org.au/getmedia/f40cd064-1427-4b87-afb0-7e89f4e1b3b4/clean-energy-australia-report-2025.pdf
University of Western Australia – big batteries report
https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/december/big-batteries-are-now-outcompeting-gas-in-the-grid-and-gas-rich-western-australia-is-at-the-forefront
California Energy Commission report
https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2025-11/californias-battery-storage-fleet-continues-record-growth-strengthening-grid
Cornell University research paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01954
California 2024 Special Report on Battery Storage
https://www.caiso.com/documents/2024-special-report-on-battery-storage-may-29-2025.pdf
S&P Global Article
https://www.spglobal.com/energy/en/news-research/latest-news/natural-gas/122624-california-batteries-taking-bigger-bite-out-of-gas-fueled-energy
Bloomberg NEF article
https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-energy/australia-on-the-cusp-of-big-battery-boom-according-to-bloombergnef-report
EMBER analysis
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Engineering With Rosie – great video about Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoi3-0EYW14
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