FRV says Victoria grid forming battery will be the first of many

Giles Parkinson 30 September 2022

FRV Australia has confirmed that it will receive $7 million in funding from the Victorian government’s Energy Innovation Fund to build the Terang big battery with grid forming inverters.

The Terang battery will be sized at 100MW/200MWh, and is one of two big batteries announced by the Victoria government along with the ground-breaking Koorangie battery in the north of the state that has signed a first of its kind contract to supply “system strength” to the grid.

FRV says the Terang lithium ion battery is the second it has built, after a smaller installation at the 5MW Dalby hybrid solar farm.

But it says it has a “significant pipeline” of battery and hybrid projects at different stages of development. It did not identify them.

FRV’s large scale solar portfolio comprises almost 800MW of projects with a total cost of more than $1 billion.

The company has delivered almost 800 MWdc of operational PV assets across 9 projects in Australia for a total project investment value of over 1 billion dollars.

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