One other huge vitality storage mission backed by Tesla’s Megapack grid-scale batteries will go browsing this yr in Australia, as the primary batch of the positioning’s last supplies wanted to attach the positioning to the grid have formally arrived on website.
The transformers required to energise a 600MW/1,600MWh Tesla Megapack facility in Plumpton, Victoria have formally arrived, as detailed in a press launch from website operator Lumea on Sunday. The positioning is anticipated to turn out to be operational someday this yr, connecting to a first-of-its-kind underground substation, coming as the most recent of a sequence of tasks to be introduced and go browsing throughout Australia in current months.
These on the so-called Melbourne Renewable Vitality Hub (MREH) welcomed the {hardware} over the weekend with a ceremony together with Victorian Minister for the State Electrical energy Fee Lily D’Ambrosio, in addition to others from Lumea and website companion Equis. Tesla’s 444 Megapacks initially arrived on the facility final Could, and the mission is anticipated to supply electrical energy to roughly 200,000 houses throughout occasions of peak vitality use.
“The Lumea staff is happy and really proud to be working with our clients Equis and the SEC to assist them realise this vital mission,” mentioned Craig Stallan, Lumea Govt Common Supervisor. “The accelerated growth of the MREH performs a key position in assembly Victoria’s bold timeline of renewable vitality and web zero targets. We’re working to securely join this monumental battery to the grid, bettering system power and enabling entry to renewable, reasonably priced and dependable vitality for shoppers.”
The transformers had been put in by a specialised Lumea crew, who used a “jack and skate” process to carry the 2 335-tonne models onto their foundations. Lumea additionally says {that a} third transformer will arrive in February, all three of which will probably be used to transform and stabilize vitality generated and saved on the facility.
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“We’re excited to see the SEC’s first mission take form and proceed to realize building milestones forward of being operational later this yr,” mentioned David Moo, the State Vitality Fee’s (SEC’s) Common Supervisor of Asset Supply. “The transformers being put in will allow the Melbourne Renewable Vitality Hub to ship as much as 1.6 gigawatt hours of vitality storage onto the grid – sufficient to energy 200,000 houses throughout peak intervals.”
Work will proceed on the preliminary two transformers to get the positioning related up by the arrival and set up of the third. The Megapack mission can even connect with the grid by the present Sydenham Terminal Station utilizing a 1.75km, 500kV underground cable, and a 500kV Plumpton Renewable Terminal Substation, which Lumea says is the primary such system of its variety in Australia.
“We’re proud we’ve got labored at tempo with our companions to deliver a vital Victorian vitality mission on-line,” mentioned David Russell, Equis Managing Director. “With the SEC’s help the Melbourne Renewable Vitality Hub is on monitor to finish inside each the fee finances and time interval forecasted.”
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