A consortium led by Eku Vitality and Shell Vitality has accomplished the second-biggest battery storage challenge within the Australian state of Victoria with a capability of 200 megawatts (MW).
The Rangebank Battery Vitality Storage System (BESS) in Melbourne’s Rangebank Businesss Park offers as much as 400 MW hours (MWh) of energy, sufficient for 80,000 properties.
“Rangebank BESS will play a vital position in serving to stabilize Victoria’s state electrical energy provide by offering extra storage capability which might be discharged at occasions of peak demand”, Eku Vitality mentioned in a web-based assertion Tuesday.
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The complete capability has been dedicated to Shell Vitality beneath a 20-year offtake settlement.
The challenge was introduced March 31, 2023, as an funding between Eku Vitality, the worldwide battery storage platform of Macquarie’s Inexperienced Funding Group; Shell Vitality; and Perfection Non-public. Canadian state-owned pension fund supervisor British Columbia Funding Administration Corp. later joined in by buying a stake in Eku Vitality.
“For Eku Vitality, Rangebank BESS is the third battery it has accomplished globally, including to a rising portfolio of greater than 50 initiatives within the pipeline”, Eku Vitality mentioned within the assertion.
Shell Vitality’s chief govt for Australia, Tony Keeling, mentioned, “Rangebank BESS is a vital addition to Shell Vitality’s battery portfolio being our first grid-scale battery funding in Victoria and Shell’s first direct fairness funding in a utility-scale BESS globally”.
“It can assist help a extra resilient energy system in Victoria, and a extra dependable power provide for our prospects because the power market continues to evolve. This challenge demonstrates how dispatchable energy like battery storage enhances renewables, on this case being positioned in certainly one of Victoria’s fasting rising inhabitants corridors”.
Venture builder and provider Fluence, a three way partnership between AES and Siemens, handles servicing and upkeep of the system.
The design features a single contiguous concrete slab and an externally positioned high-voltage cabling to ease entry for upkeep and enhance operational effectivity, Eku Vitality mentioned.
“AusNet performed a key position in finishing connection works inside the Cranbourne Switching Station, which had been delivered on time and on finances, contributing to the challenge’s total success”, it added.
In one other Australian BESS challenge, Eku Vitality just lately broke floor for a 250 MW/500 MWh facility within the Capital Territory, it introduced November 22.
Williamsdale BESS is the centerpiece of the territorial authorities’s Massive Canberra Battery ecosystem challenge. The bigger challenge additionally includes behind-the-meter battery installments at 9 authorities websites.
Anticipated to go surfing 2026, Williamsdale BESS will retailer renewable power sufficient to energy one-third of the nationwide capital metropolis for 2 hours throughout peak demand durations.
As a part of the challenge, Eku Vitality has dedicated AUD 500,000 ($320,900) to the Australian Nationwide College’s Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program. “This funding will help analysis and growth actions that improve the long run uptake and integration of battery storage applied sciences, serving to to speed up the ACT’s transition to a low-carbon economic system”, the corporate mentioned.
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