One other huge vitality storage undertaking backed by Tesla’s Megapack grid-scale batteries will go surfing this 12 months in Australia, as the primary batch of the location’s remaining supplies wanted to attach the location to the grid have formally arrived on web site.
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 web site operator Lumea on Sunday. The location is anticipated to change into operational someday this 12 months, connecting to a first-of-its-kind underground substation, coming as the newest of a collection of tasks to be introduced and go surfing 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 web site associate Equis. Tesla’s 444 Megapacks initially arrived on the facility final Could, and the undertaking is anticipated to supply electrical energy to roughly 200,000 houses throughout instances of peak vitality use.
“The Lumea crew is worked up and really proud to be working with our prospects Equis and the SEC to assist them realise this essential undertaking,” stated Craig Stallan, Lumea Govt Basic Supervisor. “The accelerated growth of the MREH performs a key function 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, bettering 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 models 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 undertaking take form and proceed to attain building milestones forward of being operational later this 12 months,” stated David Moo, the State Vitality Fee’s (SEC’s) Basic 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 location related up via the arrival and set up of the third. The Megapack undertaking may also connect with the grid via the prevailing 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 type in Australia.
“We’re proud we’ve labored at tempo with our companions to convey a important Victorian vitality undertaking on-line,” stated David Russell, Equis Managing Director. “With the SEC’s help the Melbourne Renewable Vitality Hub is on observe to finish inside each the fee funds and time interval forecasted.”
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