Australian energy producer and retailer Energy Australia has said it will control and operate two large battery energy storage systems in a portfolio developed by Edify Energy.
Renewable energy and energy storage developer Edify Energy is currently developing three energy storage systems in New South Wales, Australia, with a total scale of 150MW/300MWh, which will be connected to Mullumbiki, NSW A substation at Darlington Point.
According to industry media reports last month, Edify Energy has signed a contract with Tesla, and Tesla will serve as the company for its 60MW/120MWh Riverina Energy Storage System 1, 65MW/130MWh Riverina Energy Storage System 2 and 25MW/50MWh Provider of battery energy storage systems for the Darlington Point energy storage project.
Energy Australia said it was in the process of signing two long-term service agreements with developers for a total of 90MW/180MWh: Riverina Energy Storage System 2 and Darlington Point Energy Storage System, both battery storage projects to run from summer 2023 to 2024 The period is completed and construction is expected to begin later this year.
Energy Australia will dispatch and operate the two battery storage systems at market-oriented events as it participates in the National Electricity Market (NEM). Back in May 2021, Shell Energy signed a long-term service agreement for the Riverina Energy Storage System 1 energy storage project.
Energy Australia and Edify Energy have previously worked together on Australia's first grid-scale battery storage project at the Gannawarra solar farm in Victoria, which will be complemented by a battery storage system, again operated by Tess Pull company provides. The solar-plus-storage project went into operation in 2018, and a survey report a year later showed it had been a success.
Elsewhere in Australia, Energy Australia plans to build a 350MW/1,400MWh stand-alone battery storage system at Yallourn to replace a coal-fired power plant that is scheduled to be decommissioned by 2030.
