A collation of articles written on WattClarity over time pertaining to (and tagged with) the ‘Victoria Big Battery (VBB)’.
In this instalment of our annual review of the NEM’s expanding battery fleet, we draw on the GSD2025 to look at long-term trends in market revenue, high-price capture, the early returns of FPP, and network curtailment.
One of our keen readers and ez2view users has pointed this out to us, so we’re sharing this with you now that the Victorian Big Battery was operated for SIPS on Friday afternoon/evening 9th January 2026 (appears to have been on 3 occasions).
In this guest article, Matt Grover from Fluence draws on operational data and real-world trading experience to unpack how Australia’s grid-scale batteries performed across three June 2025 peak days — and what capabilities belong in a trader’s toolkit to navigate them effectively.
Following on from a similar review this time last year, Dan provides an updated look at the economics and performances within the NEM's big battery fleet, making use of our recently released GSD2024.
To further understand the frequency drop we delve into the 4-second data (used for regulation FCAS contribution calculations) in this Part 2, looking at generating units (including BDUs).
In this article we circle back to Tuesday 13th February 2024 to tick off a few more of the long list of questions about the 'Major Power System Event' - in this article with respect to operations of the Victoria Big Battery.
Prompted by the other article today, I've taken a look at published information about the required operations of the Victoria Big Battery (VBB) under the System Integrity Protection System (SIPS).
Elon Musk's '100 days or it's free' offer was made almost exactly 7 years ago - how much longer or shorter have battery development delivery times changed since then?
A review of battery storage market performance in the NEM throughout 2023, a year in which where we saw the battery fleet double in size.
Six observations from a chart summarising how capacity, availability and volumes enabled have changed over the early phase of the very fast FCAs markets, since commencement on October 9, 2023.
A quick look at Tuesday 28th December 2021 - when 'Market Demand' (but not 'Operational Demand') fell a shade lower than the prior low point record.
Some activity alerts prompt this short look at how the Victoria Big Battery is recovering from the industrial fire that took it out of action for a number of weeks.
A quick additional look at activity Tue 28th Sept 2021 for Victoria Big Battery - as seen in ez2view with the benefit of 'Next Day Public' data.
Two separate alerts received today about the Victoria Big Battery sent me looking for more information...
Some quick thoughts, spurred by Simon Hackett's comment in relation to the fire at the Victorian Big Battery
One Monday evening article noting reports that the fire at Victoria Big Battery is under control.
Monday's update on the fire at the new 'Victoria Big Battery' - which seems to have mostly come under control by the afternoon.
A short update on Sunday 1st August 2021, about the continuing fire at the Victoria Big Battery.
It's Saturday evening, and here's a look at what additional data I can see, in relation to the fire (and any after-effects) with the Victorian Big Battery.
Following the (very brief) initial article early this afternoon, here's some more of what we have been able to determine about today's fire at the new Victoria Big Battery facility near Geelong VIC.