Australia’s Akaysha Energy aims at Germany with new development partnership with Copenhagen Energy

One of the bigger dogs in the Australian energy storage market, Akaysha Energy, has set its sights on a further international expansion, this time into Germany, by linking up with Copenhagen Energy to press go on a parternship to build a “multigigawatt development pipeline” in the country.

Akaysha is a Blackrock-backed full-cycle developer and operator of projects, and in Australia, has been building significant projects across the country. These include, just days ago, the company officially commencing construction on its 311 MW / 1,244 MWh Elaine BESS in Victoria, some months after securing $460 million in construction financing from a consortium of banks, and setting it up with a 15-year virtual toll agreement with Snowy Hydro.

In 2026, it also enetered commercial operations with its grid-forming 205 MW/410 MWh Brendale BESS in the state of Queensland, amid a host of other projects in 2025 including Ulinda Park. It further has a pipeline in the US and Japan.

Back in Australia, a strong association for Akaysha is its 850 MW Waratah Super Battery, a true flagship project for the company, and one that was on track to come online on time and on schedule.

In a well-known spanner in the works in the industry, the Waratah Super Battery project suffered a “catastrophic failure” of a high-voltage transformer during very late-stage testing, delaying the 850 MW/1,680 MWh facility and taking offline two transformers, one a write-off.

In better news for the facility, the Australian grid-focused website WattClarity noted that in addition to one transformer being in operation, the second transformer at the Waratah is operational for testing and has been ramping up its test cycling.

Germany expansion

The announcement didn’t reveal specifics about the focus on the German market in terms of other partners, project locations, timelines, or size concepts. It did mention a project pipeline of 2.6GW as of 30 March 2026, while noting a key person working in Germany as Tom Franks as the Senior Commercial Manager & Country Head, Germany. The scale of the pipeline options suggests multiple very large-scale facilities distributed across Germany’s grid infrastructure could be built.

The utility-sized German energy storage market faces troubles with government policy and regulation, as grid-fee reform threatens viability for investment, not because of potential fees, but because of continuing uncertainty making bankability harder to achieve due to regulatory risk.