Smithfield Battery
The Smithfield battery energy storage system (BESS) will have a capacity of 65 megawatts (MW) and 130 megawatt hours (MWh) of two-hour storage.
UNSW is striving towards 1,000GWh of beneficial energy storage in Australia by 2050. We believe this level of storage will underpin a healthy society by promoting a resilient and sustainable energy system. Resilience means providing electrical energy more reliably, by accommodating variable generators and unplanned damage to grid infrastructure.
Increasing gap between maximum and minimum operational demand in Australia call for urgent need of balancing storage technologies. Fast response hybrid battery-supercapacitor energy storage are deemed prudent solution for the transition period, while PHES and Hydrogen are for long-term storage
Akaysha Energy's 415 MW / 1,660 MWh Orana battery. To be located in Wellington in central-west NSW, the battery system will provide firmed capacity to the state's first Renewable Energy Zone and four hours of storage. AGL Energy's 500 MW / 1,000 MWh Liddell battery.
More than 1 GW of firmed storage capacity is set to be delivered by the six winning projects from the New South Wales (NSW) tender combining state and federal schemes. Akaysha Energy's 415 MW / 1660 MWh battery in Wellington and AGL's 500 MW / 1000 MWh Liddell battery are the round's two biggest projects.
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