As energy companies look to diversify their portfolio in renewable energy, the demand for electrification will continue to increase. There will be increasing demands on the electrical grid infrastructure. Distributed energy resources (DER) such as solar photovoltaic (PV) on rooftops and electric vehicles will experience a host of operational issues such as hosting capacities, overloads, reverse flow, phase balance, frequency drift and voltage variation. Battery energy storage systems can help mitigate some of these problems. In this paper, the literature and public available information on operational battery storage systems in Australia are reviewed and discussed. It is found that both small batteries and large batteries both fundamentally address grid operational issues. As Australia moves towards high DER penetration and high renewable energy generation, there will be a need for more battery energy storage systems to offset operational issues. The lack of private funding especially for smaller batteries may possibly cause PV DER to lag the overall demand for electrification.