Tesla has gained one other Megapack contract in Australia, coming as the newest of the corporate’s commitments to construct new vitality storage websites and increase current ones.
The contract will oversee the enlargement of the just lately completed Western Downs battery in Queensland, Australia, enhance the vitality storage website’s dimension to 540 MW / 1,080 MWh, as detailed in a report from Renew Economic system. In whole, Tesla will present 140 Megapack models for the mission, anticipated to be valued at about $133 million, whereas builders anticipate the second stage of the mission to be operational by 2026.
The location is being operated by French renewables firm Neoen, which signed a 10-year contract with AGL Power, which is the nation’s largest coal generator. The contract indicators into place the addition of Megapack energy from Tesla, and it’ll increase what’s Queensland’s largest battery mission—for now, a minimum of.
Tesla Megapacks to assist develop 560 MW/2,240MWh battery in Australia
“The power to just about cost and dispatch this battery will increase the variety of instruments we are able to use to assist our prospects’ wants whereas additionally supporting electrical energy provide into the grid,” mentioned AGL COO Markus Brokhof in an announcement. “Digital battery agreements present flexibility inside our firming portfolio with out the requirement to construct, function, and preserve the bodily battery.”
Neoen CEO Xavier Barbaro has additionally highlighted the corporate’s hand in a number of current battery vitality storage system (BESS) initiatives in Australia.
“Neoen is proud to have developed the ‘digital battery’ provide in Australia, offering a bespoke, sensible, value-added product that meets the growing wants of our prospects,” Barbaro mentioned. “Over the previous seven years, Neoen has been a number one participant in storage in Australia and all over the world, and we are going to proceed to design and ship built-in options to speed up the vitality transition.”
Neoen now has as a lot as 1,925 MW / 4,709 MWh of vitality storage capability both in operation or beneath development in Australia.
Regardless of the Western Downs website presently being the Australian state’s largest battery mission, a further enlargement on the state’s Stanwell battery is predicted to extend the present vitality storage system to 300MW/1,200MWh to develop into the state’s greatest. That enlargement additionally gained a $448.2 million funding from the state’s authorities, and it’s being constructed close to a coal plant that’s slated to shut.
Tesla additionally has numerous different Megapack initiatives all through Australia, together with these in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, and different states, nonetheless.
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