The Australian Government through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today announced that it will jointly fund a new large-scale, grid-connected battery located in western Sydney.
On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA will provide up to AUD11.5 million (US$8.12 million) in funding to TransGrid to build a 50 MW/75 MWh large-scale, grid-connected lithium-ion battery at its Wallgrove substation in western Sydney.
The NSW Government will also provide AUD10 million (US$7.06 million) in funding for the battery, as part of their $75 million Emerging Energy Program.
Once built, the AUD61.9 million (US$43.7 million) Wallgrove Grid Battery, owned and operated by TransGrid, will provide fast frequency response and inertia services to the NSW transmission network.
The Wallgrove Grid Battery will be designed and constructed by Tesla using their Megapacks to demonstrate its innovative synthetic inertia product known as “Virtual Machine Mode”.
The battery will be dispatched by Infigen Energy who will trade the battery in the wholesale market and frequency control ancillary services (FCAS) markets.
