Hitachi Power has delivered the 35 MVA Darwin-Katherine Battery Power Storage System to Australia’s Northern Territory. Now that civil and development works have been accomplished on the $30.2 million massive battery website, the corporate will deploy the know-how to offer digital inertia and power providers to the grid system.
from Australia’s pv journal
Australia’s Northern Territory is ready to have its first large-scale battery in operation in 2023 – the 34.7 MW / 34.7 MWh Darwin-Katherine Battery Power Storage System (DK BESS), at present beneath development on the Channel Island Energy Station in Darwin. The capability of the massive battery appears modest, however it’s price noting that the Northern Territory has a inhabitants of solely 247,000.
Switzerland-based Hitachi Power, which gained the territorial authorities tender in December 2021, delivered the battery utilizing the Digital Synchronous Machine. Grid shaping know-how provides batteries the capability to assist stabilize the grid by offering inertial and frequency management providers, which have been solely supplied by gasoline or coal-fired mills till just lately.
Hitachi has already deployed the know-how in Australia with Hitachi ABB Energy Grids powered by a 30 MW/ 8 MWh Dalrymple battery in South Australia. Hitachi Power Nation Managing Director Bernard Norton described the deployment as “a daring step in the direction of working all the Darwin-Katherine community with out gasoline powered mills.”
Norton gestures in the direction of the last word imaginative and prescient for the Darwin-Katherine battery which, constructed on the location of a 279 MW gasoline facility, the Channel Island Energy Station, is a step in the direction of the eventual alternative of fossil-fuel technology.
DK BESS is predicted to unlock extra capability for residential and industrial photo voltaic and save 58,000 tons of carbon emissions per yr. The battery is predicted to generate financial savings of $6.6 million and pay for itself in simply 5 years. It’ll feed into the Darwin-Katherine Interconnected System, which serves 150,000 individuals within the Northern Territory.
Gerhard Laubscher, CEO of Territory Technology, the territory-owned firm behind the Channel Island Energy Station, mentioned Hitachi Power already has a group deployed on website to hold out specialist battery gear and cable set up.
Hitachi is working with native contractor ESPEC to ship the battery, whereas Western Australian firm Pacific Power Group will provide and set up the 11.5 kV switchroom via its subsidiary, MVLV Energy Options.
The DK BESS has been described because the “basis stone” of the Fleet Transition to Territory Technology, with the venture additionally a serious a part of the Darwin-Katherine Electrical energy System Plan.
“The development of the Darwin-Katherine BESS is an enormous step ahead in our plan for 50% renewables by 2030,” mentioned the Minister of the Northern Territory for Renewables and Power, Selena Uibo.
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