IFN and Batteries, page-4

More from batt-crazy Ash. (feel free to ignore my ravings)

Have a look at the charts on FCAS revenues, Discharge revenues and Charging costs for the small Dalrymple SA battery in this piece from RenewEconomy.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australias-other-big-battery-is-earning-money-and-keeping-the-lights-on-28716/

There is real money to be made skimming off unused and low value night electricity and reselling at peak prices. Smithfield OCGT is plugged into the Sydney-Canberra electricity corridor by a fat 208MW high voltage interconnector. The 'firming' capacity of Smithfield + battery would be greater in combination than as two facilities. Abundant vacant land adjoins on which to build.

And the beautiful thing is, a battery here would mean an alternative destination for uncontracted Smithfield generation - during warmups, etc. Abruptly, the facility would not waste a single volt/millisecond.

RR & team are still bedding down the Lake Bonney battery and have just taken operational control of Smithfield, so we cannot expect instant action. Yet this material opportunity beckons.

Ash