AGL to Build Australia's Largest Energy Storage Facility

• AGL has government authorization to build a 500MW/2,000 MWh battery energy storage system at a retiring coal power plant site in New South Wales
• The proposed BESS by the business will certainly be four times the size of the Victorian Big Battery

AGL Energy Ltd-- an Australian incorporated energy generation and also retail company-- has introduced that it has obtained the authorization from the state government of New South Wales to develop the country's biggest battery storage.

Just recently, AGL had actually recommended to build a 500MW/2,000 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) as part of the Hunter Energy Hub in New South Wales. This will certainly be hosted at Liddell power station that presently works on coal however it will certainly be retiring a year after. Australia's largest energy firm wishes to transform the thermal power plant supply into a storage space facility of massive scale.

Based on the records, AGL had actually gotten the Liddell Power Station in 2015 however the company had to invest greater than $90 million to enhance the reliability of the project.

As per AGL it has actually been approved a go on by the Department of Planning and Environment (DPE), NSW Government. The recommended BESS by the firm will be 4 times the size of the Victorian Big Battery which stands at 300MWh/450MWh and also went online simply months earlier.

Based On Principal Operating Officer (COO) of AGL, Markus Brokhof, along with the battery energy storage space systems, the Hunter Energy Hub will certainly additionally host diverse facilities like wind generation, solar, pumped hydro energy storage (PHES), a waste-to-energy plant and also a green hydrogen pilot plant.

Brokhof said, "As Australia progresses and also we increase our reliance on eco-friendly generation, batteries will be important in supplying the storage space required to maintain a constant, trustworthy and inexpensive energy system."

In 2019, the company had released its 'Climate statement as well as commitments' plan in which it had actually revealed that it will construct 850MW of brand-new battery storage systems at the coal based power plant sites by 2024. The news also featured creating the 500MW BESS in the Hunter Energy Hub.

AGL has likewise stated that the 250MW BESS project at Torrens Island natural gas plant positioned in South Australia is unfinished. The advancement of the BESS began in 2021. It included that construction will additionally begin quickly in two other projects in Broken Hill in NSW and also at Loy Yang coal power plant site in Victoria.