Batteries & Energy Storage · Recorded milestone
Grid-scale batteries
Recorded year2017
South Australia's Hornsdale Power Reserve shows giant lithium-ion banks can stabilise a grid in milliseconds.
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Led to
- Cars that power the gridRecorded · 2024enables
- Megawatt multi-vendor grid-forming test programRecorded · 2024enables
- Sodium-ion grid storageRecorded · 2024enables
- CO2 battery storage plantRecorded · 2025enables
- Multi-day iron-air batteriesRecorded · 2025enables
- AI grid operatorsForecast · ~2028enables
- Heat pumps standardForecast · ~2035enables
- Continental supergridForecast · ~2036enables
- Solar cold storage for every farmForecast · ~2036enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.