Infigen has secured federal government funding of A$5m to support installation of a 25MW/52MWh Tesla battery at the 278.5MW Lake Bonney wind farm in South Australia.
Renewable energy agency ARENA will provide funding for the $38m project, which had previously secured A$5m in cash from the state government.
Infigen will build and operate the facility which will be connected to the grid via the Mayurra substation near Mount Gambier in the state’s south east.
The battery will deliver flexible capacity and system security services such as frequency control ancillary services to the electricity grid in South Australia.
ARENA chief executive Ivor Frischknecht said battery storage was increasingly a key component of transitioning to an energy system powered by renewables. “It is clear that grid scale batteries have an important role in stabilising the grid,” he said.
Image: a wind and battery double-punch (Tesla)
Oz cash for Infigen battery
By EBS