Big Batteries, page-5

News today in The Australian that Energy Australia with the head of the ‘portfolio development’ division, Dan Nugent has broader horizons in mind than just lithium batteries:
There’s no mention of vanadium flow batteries but maybe he’s holding his cards close to his chest?


… “More than $100m is expected to be spent on the first stage of the project, which has been earmarked for a site adjacent to the company’s Hallett power station in Canowie, 210km north of Adelaide.
It would support an initial storage capacity of 50MW and discharge capacity of up to 200MWh - the equivalent of powering up to 81,000 homes for four hours.
There are plans to expand the battery’s capacity to 200MW/800MWh over time as the company looks to retire its gas-fired power station at the site.”

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/bu...a/news-story/3c24c1298df4c0240fa1af363fd52a6f

cheers and, FWIW, here’s a spoiler with a bit more from that report from and Nugent ;

Spoiler : Dan Nugent from Energy Australia

“.. “….I think now we’re moving towards a world where batteries are going to need to play a more meaningful role from an energy perspective and capacity.
“Where we’re seeing the lithium-ion batteries being the right technology up to that four hours, we need to find the right technology for that longer duration storage. Pumped hydro plays a pretty key role, sort of eight to 10 hours, but even then there’s still probably longer duration storage that is needed.”

As part of its 5GW pipeline of storage and firming projects, EnergyAustralia is investigating the feasibility of a pumped hydro project at Lake Lyell near Lithgow in NSW.
It is also investigating longer duration storage technologies utilising a development site at Marulan, south-west of Sydney.
“We’re looking at what is the best long duration storage technology that we can apply to that site up in NSW,” Mr Nugent said.
“One of the examples of a more emerging technology is the compressed air energy storage from Hydrostor, and we think that technology has quite a bit of merit.
“We’re definitely looking at exploring the application of that technology - we’re keen to see how we can utilize that technology at one of our sites.”

As part of its energy transition, EnergyAustralia will also spend $5bn by 2030 to develop 3GW of renewable energy generation assets to replace its coal power generation.
The $5bn spend will be spent directly and with partners.”