Neoen lodges intending application for 1-GW/4-GWh battery in Western Australia

• France's Neoen SA (EPA: NEOEN) is seeking planning authorization for the installment of a 1-GW/4-GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Western Australia, official documents showed on Tuesday.

The renewable power manufacturer has lodged an application with the County of Collie as well as the Regional Joint Development Assessment Panel (JDAP).

To be developed near the coal community of Collie, around 215 kilometres southeast of Perth, the Collie battery will certainly be built in five 200-MW/800-MWh stages, or "as needed" to meet power storage demand in the area, as well as will certainly be attached to the South West Interconnected System (SWIS), the state's main electricity grid. The project website will extend 31 acres (12.5 ha).

The substantial project will certainly be carried out to deal with intermittencies in the energy supply and grid variations. The facility will supply system safety services such as inertia, frequency control, system toughness and also voltage control. As part of the scheme, Neoen likewise plans to mount a new switchgear, a substation with step-up power transformers as well as a 330-kV expenses cable line.

Each phase of the project is intended to take in between 12 and 24 months to develop, Neoen stated. Once the first stage is completed, the facility will provide storage capacity to cover the typical energy needs of 260,000 houses for an hour.

Neoen is the programmer of Australia's biggest BESS-- the 300 MW/450 MWh Victorian Large Battery that browsed the web in December 2021.