Most Australian businesses meet the energy transition as a series of separate problems. Power costs climb through the evening peak while midday solar is exported for almost nothing. A new production line or a fleet of EV chargers needs more capacity than the connection allows. An outage costs a shift, or a truckload of stock. Process heat still runs on gas, and electrifying it looks like swapping a stable fuel price for an unpredictable one. These read as four different projects. They are four symptoms of the same gap between when energy is cheap and when it is needed.
Battery energy storage closes that gap. It stores electricity when it is cheap or plentiful and releases it when it is needed most, and because it is a controllable asset rather than a fixed piece of infrastructure, the same system can serve several of those problems at once.