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Tesla gets $133M Megapack deal to double Queensland battery size
Aug
Tesla has gained one other Megapack contract in Australia, coming as the most recent of the corporate’s commitments to construct new vitality storage websites and broaden present ones.
The contract will oversee the growth of the just lately completed Western Downs battery in Queensland, Australia, improve the vitality storage website’s measurement to 540 MW / 1,080 MWh, as detailed in a report from Renew Economy. In whole, Tesla will present 140 Megapack models for the challenge, anticipated to be valued at about $133 million, whereas builders count on the second stage of the challenge 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 challenge—for now, at the least.
Tesla Megapacks to help grow 560 MW/2,240MWh battery in Australia
“The flexibility to nearly cost and dispatch this battery will increase the variety of instruments we are able to use to help our prospects’ wants whereas additionally supporting electrical energy provide into the grid,” stated AGL COO Markus Brokhof in a press release. “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 current battery vitality storage system (BESS) initiatives in Australia.
“Neoen is proud to have developed the ‘digital battery’ provide in Australia, offering a bespoke, good, value-added product that meets the rising wants of our prospects,” Barbaro stated. “Over the previous seven years, Neoen has been a number one participant in storage in Australia and all over the world, and we’ll 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 underneath building in Australia.
Regardless of the Western Downs website at the moment being the Australian state’s largest battery challenge, an extra expansion at the state’s Stanwell battery is expected to increase the existing energy storage system to 300MW/1,200MWh to turn into the state’s greatest. That growth 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 initiatives all through Australia, together with these in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, and different states, nonetheless.
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