One other huge vitality storage challenge backed by Tesla’s Megapack grid-scale batteries will go browsing this yr in Australia, as the primary batch of the location’s last supplies wanted to attach the location 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 predicted to develop into operational someday this yr, connecting to a first-of-its-kind underground substation, coming as the newest of a collection of initiatives to be introduced and go browsing throughout Australia in latest months.
These on the so-called Melbourne Renewable Power 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 challenge is predicted to supply electrical energy to roughly 200,000 houses throughout occasions of peak vitality use.
“The Lumea workforce is happy and really proud to be working with our clients Equis and the SEC to assist them realise this vital challenge,” mentioned Craig Stallan, Lumea Government Normal Supervisor. “The accelerated growth of the MREH performs a key position in assembly Victoria’s formidable timeline of renewable vitality and web zero targets. We’re working to soundly join this huge battery to the grid, enhancing system energy and enabling entry to renewable, inexpensive and dependable vitality for customers.”
The transformers have been put in by a specialised Lumea crew, who used a “jack and skate” process to carry the 2 335-tonne items onto their foundations. Lumea additionally says {that a} third transformer will arrive in February, all three of which shall 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 challenge take form and proceed to attain building milestones forward of being operational later this yr,” mentioned David Moo, the State Power Fee’s (SEC’s) Normal Supervisor of Asset Supply. “The transformers being put in will allow the Melbourne Renewable Power Hub to ship as much as 1.6 gigawatt hours of vitality storage onto the grid – sufficient to energy 200,000 houses throughout peak durations.”
Work will proceed on the preliminary two transformers to get the location related up by way of the arrival and set up of the third. The Megapack challenge will even hook up with the grid by way of 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 form in Australia.
“We’re proud we’ve labored at tempo with our companions to carry a essential Victorian vitality challenge on-line,” mentioned David Russell, Equis Managing Director. “With the SEC’s help the Melbourne Renewable Power Hub is on monitor to finish inside each the associated fee finances and time interval forecasted.”
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