Australia is the world's third-biggest battery market, with more than 60 GWh of grid-scale storage being built across every mainland state. None of it runs without electricians, HV crews, civil and earthworks. Atlas Intelligence puts every big battery on a map and feeds you the tenders and contract awards, filtered to your trade and your patch.
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Coal is closing, renewables are surging, and firming it all needs storage at a scale Australia has never built before. That work lands squarely on the trades who wire, connect, and prepare the ground.
Australia is now the world's third-biggest battery market, with 60+ GWh of grid-scale storage in the build pipeline. The Capacity Investment Scheme, state storage targets and a wave of coal closures are driving GW-scale batteries every year, in every mainland state. This is not a spike, it is a multi-year build cycle.
$20B+ · 60 GWh · every mainland stateAustralia and New Zealand are the most labour-constrained construction market on earth. High-voltage electricians, civil crews and MEP trades are exactly the categories big batteries compete for. If you are in these trades you have the leverage, you just need to find the work first.
Shortage = pricing power for youBy the time a battery package is public, the EPC's phone is already ringing. Atlas maps batteries from planning and approvals through to construction, and alerts you the moment a builder wins the EPC (UGL, Fluence, GenusPlus, CPP and more), so you can call while the sub-packages are still open.
Planning → EPC award → package, trackedA grid-scale battery is a stack of specialist trade packages. Here is where the work is, and how Atlas puts it in front of you.
A big battery is, at its core, a giant high-voltage installation: inverters and power conversion, LV and MV reticulation to hundreds of battery containers, protection and control, plus thousands of metres of cable and containment. HV and electrical is the single largest labour pool on a BESS build. Atlas surfaces the electrical packages the moment a project hits procurement.
The #1 battery tradeBulk earthworks, pads and hardstand, footings and piling for the container rows, drainage, in-ground services and heavy-haul access roads come first, often 6 to 12 months before anything is energised. Growth-corridor and major-project tracking lets civil and earthmoving crews see batteries in planning and approvals, well ahead of a tender.
First trade on the padMost of the value sits in the connection: a 33/132/330kV substation, switchrooms and control buildings, transformers, overhead line and the grid works that tie the battery into the network. This is a specialist high-voltage package that head contractors let early. See it before it is tendered.
The grid connection scopeConcrete plinths and slabs for hundreds of battery containers, transformer bunds, spill containment, the control building and retaining structures add up to a substantial structural package. Atlas flags the sub-packages likely to be let separately by the EPC.
Plinths, bunds and buildingsLithium storage carries a fire and safety scope well above a standard site: thermal detection, deluge and suppression, bunding, spill containment and emergency systems. Track the specialist packages and the builders letting them.
Lithium-grade specEvery battery finishes with a long commissioning phase: HV testing, SCADA and controls, protection settings and grid-compliance (GPS) sign-off with AEMO. It is steady, skilled work that runs for months. Atlas covers the electrical and data trade categories that win it.
The long tail of workThe same platform Australian trades use across every sector, pointed at the big-battery boom.
See grid-scale batteries and the wider construction pipeline across your region on one interactive map, filtered to your trade and travel radius. Battery Storage is its own map sector, so you can see exactly where the next wave of storage is landing before it is tendered.
Live tenders from 9 government portals land in your feed every morning, filtered to your trade, state and value range. Every battery shows who won the EPC and when work starts, so you can chase the builder while the sub-packages are still open.
AI briefs give you the scope, likely sub-packages and key dates of any tender in seconds. Fit scoring surfaces the jobs worth chasing, and your bid pipeline keeps every opportunity from first look to won, so you chase the right battery work, first.
Profile-aware project map, live tender feed, awarded contracts and bid pipeline CRM, all filtered to your trade, your state and your travel radius.

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