Long Duration Strategies

Independent technical and stakeholder advisory for renewable generation and long-duration energy storage projects in Australia

Long Duration Strategies supports developers, governments, and advisers by translating complex energy technologies into deployable projects—projects that can secure approvals, investment, and community acceptance, and stand up to technical and regulatory scrutiny.

SECTORS

Technical, market and project support across generation, storage and transmission. 

Mechanical Storage

Transmission

Renewable Fuels

Batteries (all chemistries)

Traditional Ownership Engagement

Traditional Owners are central to project development outcomes. Long Duration Strategies supports clients by ensuring engagement occurs early, appropriately, and in a way that strengthens project credibility and long-term viability.

Experience includes:

  • Serving as a federal project officer supporting regional environmental assessment with a confederation of First Peoples

  • Negotiation of access across Traditional Owner landscapes

  • University- and government-led engagement with multiple Traditional Owner Corporations

Our Services

  • Independent technical advisory on long-duration energy storage and renewable generation technologies, with a focus on real-world deployability and system integration.

    • Pumped hydro energy storage (PHES)

    • Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)

    • Battery energy storage systems (BESS and flow batteries)

    • Renewable fuels and emerging firming technologies

    • Technology realism, duration assumptions, and operational constraints

    Support is provided to developers, governments, and advisory firms where technology assumptions materially affect policy, market, or investment decisions.

  • Early-stage and pre-investment support to help projects move efficiently through development and approvals.

    • Project shaping and development strategy

    • Planning and approvals pathway support (state and Commonwealth)

    • Interface between engineers, regulators, and approval authorities

    • Risk identification related to technology choice, siting, and delivery

  • Support in building the relationships required to progress complex infrastructure projects.

    • Traditional Owner engagement (early and appropriate)

    • Local, state, and Commonwealth government engagement

    • Industrial, corporate, and project partner relationships

    • Community-facing project narratives grounded in technical reality

  • Specialist support at the intersection of technology, policy, and markets.

    • Clarification of state and Commonwealth energy policy

    • Translation of policy intent into project-ready pathways

    • Technical input to policy, market design, and regulatory work

    • Fractional specialist capacity for advisory firms and institutions

PROFILE

Lawrence Molloy

Lawrence Molloy is an engineer and independent advisor working across renewable generation and long-duration energy storage in Australia.

Until recently, he worked within the Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, supporting investment attraction and project facilitation across the energy sector. His areas of focus included pumped hydro energy storage, compressed air energy storage, and a range of battery systems including BESS, flow batteries, and neighbourhood batteries.

Prior to this, Lawrence was an Enterprise Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s School of Engineering, where he focused on applied industrial research projects and coordinated research and engagement with multiple Traditional Owner Corporations.

Internationally, he served with the World Bank as a client engineer on water and irrigation projects in India and Indonesia, and spent nearly 20 years with EBARA Corporation of Japan, working on technology market analysis and industrial partner engagement across water, power, waste-to-energy, geothermal, bioenergy, flywheels, and energy recovery systems.

Earlier in his career, Lawrence served as a federal officer with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, where he was awarded a Gold Medal for Exceptional Service for his work on civil rights and the environment.

He holds an Honours degree in Geology from Colgate University and a Master’s degree in Water Resources Engineering from Stanford University. He is a Scott M. Johnson Fellow of the US–Japan Foundation, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy, and a PhD candidate in Engineering at the University of Melbourne.

Lawrence.Molloy@LongDurationStrategies.com