AGL preps commissioning of 250-MW/250-MWh battery in S Australia

• AGL Energy Ltd (ASX: AGL) is anticipated to commission a 250 MW/250 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in South Australia's Torrens Island in a couple of weeks, having received authorization for performance standards by market regulatory authority AEMO.

Complying with the thumbs-up from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), electrical power transmission firm ElectraNet has actually implemented the transmission connection agreement for the project, it claimed previously this week. According to it, the battery will certainly be totally energised in the next couple of weeks.

The one-hour Torrens Island BESS is being mounted in the Adelaide metropolitan area, making use of innovation by Finnish team Wartsila Corp. It was designed to boost energy safety as well as the integrity of the grid as well as to support the higher implementation of renewable resource capability amidst strategies to change a local gas-fired station into a low-carbon industrial energy hub.

The Torrens Island battery would certainly be the first of an 850-MW package of projects that AGL plans to roll out by the end of fiscal 2024. The utility previously said it might expand the system to as much as four hours, or 1,000 MWh.