Australia has built one of the world's most competitive battery storage markets — and it got there faster than almost anywhere else on the planet. What started as an experiment in South Australia in 2017 has grown into a mature, multi-gigawatt industry that is now redefining what grid-scale batteries can do.
In this episode of Transmission, host Wendel Hortop sits down with Jérémie Yvon, Head of Energy Management at Neoen Australia, to explore how one of the country's largest renewable energy companies is navigating the rapidly evolving battery landscape across both the National Electricity Market (NEM) and the Western Australian Electricity Market (WEM).
They cover the maturation of the Australian battery market, how Neoen structures battery revenue across two very different market designs, the rise of virtual batteries and firm renewable PPAs, long-duration storage investment, and why Jérémie believes battery oversupply is a credible - and under appreciated - risk.
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Transmission is a Modo Energy production. Your host is Wendel Hortop - Head of Australia
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction — the hospital generator analogy
1:45 Guest intro: Jérémie Yvon and Neoen Australia
4:30 NEM vs WEM: how battery economics differ
8:30 Hornsdale: from proof of concept to system services
11:30 NEM design — volatility and five-minute trading
14:00 WEM design — capacity market mechanics
17:00 Revenue compression in ancillary services
20:30 How Neoen builds optimisation capabilities in-house
23:00 Battery + wind firming: delivering baseload renewables
25:30 Virtual battery products explained
29:00 Risk management for firm products
32:00 Solar cannibalisation and price suppression
38:00 Long-duration storage pipeline
44:00 Rate of change of frequency (RoCoF) services
47:00 Are batteries now the cheapest system service provider?
50:00 Contrarian view: what the market is getting wrong
51:39 Wrap-up
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