‘You need to be co-located with battery storage’: Wärtsilä sees DC-coupling as essential for Australia’s solar future
ESN Premium speaks with Neha Sinha of Wärtsilä Energy Storage, about DC-coupled solar-battery hybrids in Australia.

ESN Premium speaks with Neha Sinha of Wärtsilä Energy Storage, about DC-coupled solar-battery hybrids in Australia.
Marie Cullen, head of procurement at Fluence Australia, explains how social licensing could become a key component for the future of energy storage developments.
RedEarth’s Marc Sheldon admits that the company decided to push back the launch of Australia’s first locally manufactured V2G charger.
ESN Premium speaks with Fluence’s Matt Grover about the need for sophisticated software solutions to enhance battery trading.
Andrés Barberán, energy storage product manager at Fluence, emphasises that optimising battery energy storage system (BESS) performance means making decisions with the entire asset lifecycle in mind, not just immediate returns.
Sahand Karimi, CEO of OptiGrid, tells ESN Premium that the majority of BESS projects in the NEM “rarely go fully contracted”.
“We need some form of policy or expansion of the CIS for LDES,” Nick Hawke, director of Australia’s CEFC, tells ESN Premium.
Fluence’s Matt Grover and Sam Markham discuss the growing opportunity for hybrid renewables-plus-storage projects in Australia.
Fluence Australia’s Marie Cullen explains why responsible sourcing is important to the energy transition and energy storage developments.
In this blog, ESN Premium speaks with Fluence’s Rob Hills and Sam Markham about hybrid assets and trends in Australia’s NEM.