Tesla has gained one other Megapack contract in Australia, coming as the most recent of the corporate’s commitments to construct new power storage websites and broaden present ones.
The contract will oversee the enlargement of the lately completed Western Downs battery in Queensland, Australia, improve the power storage website’s measurement to 540 MW / 1,080 MWh, as detailed in a report from Renew Financial system. In complete, Tesla will present 140 Megapack items for the undertaking, anticipated to be valued at about $133 million, whereas builders anticipate the second stage of the undertaking 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 broaden what’s Queensland’s largest battery undertaking—for now, a minimum of.
Tesla Megapacks to assist develop 560 MW/2,240MWh battery in Australia
“The flexibility to nearly cost and dispatch this battery will increase the variety of instruments we will use to help 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 keep the bodily battery.”
Neoen CEO Xavier Barbaro has additionally highlighted the corporate’s hand in a number of latest battery power storage system (BESS) tasks in Australia.
“Neoen is proud to have developed the ‘digital battery’ supply in Australia, offering a bespoke, sensible, value-added product that meets the rising wants of our prospects,” Barbaro mentioned. “Over the previous seven years, Neoen has been a number one participant in storage in Australia and world wide, and we’ll proceed to design and ship built-in options to speed up the power transition.”
Neoen now has as a lot as 1,925 MW / 4,709 MWh of power storage capability both in operation or below building in Australia.
Regardless of the Western Downs website at present being the Australian state’s largest battery undertaking, an extra enlargement on the state’s Stanwell battery is anticipated to extend the present power storage system to 300MW/1,200MWh to grow to be the state’s largest. 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 a lot of different Megapack tasks all through Australia, together with these in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, and different states, nonetheless.
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