Technology group Wärtsilä will supply a 250MW battery energy storage system to Aussie integrated energy player AGL Energy.
The system will be installed at the Torrens Island in South Australia. It will be AGL’s first grid-scale BESS project, and the second biggest in Australia.
When installed, the system will support a broad portfolio of generating assets, both thermal and renewable, and help Australia to decarbonise and transition towards 100% renewable energy future,” said Wärtsilä.
The order was booked in July 2021.
AGL is an integrated essential service provider with electricity generation capacity of more than 11,000MW, representing approximately 20 percent of the total generating capacity within Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM).
The order of more than €100m is the first placed under a framework agreement signed between Wärtsilä and AGL in 2020 for the supply of energy storage projects.
AGL plans up to 1GW of grid-scale energy storage across Australia, a country with unparalleled renewable energy resources.
“AGL and Wärtsilä both share a vision to bring cleaner sustainable energy to the market in the most efficient way possible. We are excited to see our grid-scale energy storage plans coming to life, and work with Wärtsilä, a company with a leading position and an impressive track record in energy storage technology, as a project partner,” said AGL Chief Operating Officer, Markus Brokhof.