Neoen wins bid to build 300MW Oz battery

• Energy storage project in Victoria is being provided with Tesla as well as is due online by the end of 2021

Neoen has been granted a 250MW grid solutions contract with the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) enabling it to wage the following stage of a prepared 300MW battery in Victoria.

The AEMO tender was started by the Victorian Government.

The Victorian Big Battery will certainly aid to "modernise as well as stabilise" the grid in Victoria and will be "instrumental" in helping the state reach its 50% renewables by 2030 goal, Neoen claimed.

The Victorian Big Battery, anticipated to be functional by the end of 2021, will certainly turn into one of the globe's biggest batteries at double the size of Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, also possessed and operated by Neoen.

It will certainly be supplied along with Tesla, and also network partner AusNet Services.

The 300MW/450 megawatt-hour Victorian Big Battery will lie alongside Moorabool Terminal Station in Geelong, Victoria.

Grid solutions the battery will supply under contract to AEMO consist of the System Integrity Protection Scheme (SIPS), which will run until 2032 as well as is the outcome of the SIPS 2020 purchase procedure started by the Victorian Government.

The battery will certainly unlock as much as an additional 250MW of peak ability on the existing Victoria to New South Wales Interconnector (VNI) over the following decade of Australian summers.

Under the contract, the battery will offer an automatic response in case of an unexpected network interruption, supplying AEMO with an added ways of guaranteeing grid stability.

The battery will certainly also take part in the National Electricity Market as well as assistance enhanced infiltration of renewables in Victoria via network solutions such as fast frequency control.

The battery will bring about over 80 building jobs and also six full time long-term jobs.

Where possible, regional suppliers will certainly be gotten, with AusNet currently having sourced the project's power transformers from Melbourne-based Wilson Transformer Company.

Regional area structure and education initiatives will certainly likewise be sustained across the project's lifetime via a Community Benefit Fund.

Neoen Australia taking care of supervisor Louis de Sambucy stated: "We are delighted to have won the SIPS agreement and wish to give thanks to AEMO and the Victorian Government for putting their rely on us.

" We are looking forward to working once again with Tesla and AusNet to supply this world-leading battery storage space facility over the coming months. We are very honored to be releasing a project of this range and also innovation in support of Victoria's tidy energy change."

Lily D'Ambrosio, Minister for Energy, Environment as well as Climate Change, claimed: "By safeguarding one of the biggest batteries on the planet, Victoria is taking a decisive action away from coal-fired power and accepting new innovations that will certainly open much more renewable energy than ever."