The Australian arm of Risen Energy is advancing strategies to establish a four-hour lithium-ion battery energy storage system at Coleambally in the Riverina area of New South Wales (NSW), stating the task will assist stabilise and stabilize the grid as Australia shifts from coal-fired power to renewables.

The 100 MW/400 MWh Coleambally battery energy storage system, which is presently open for neighborhood feedback after Risen sent a State Considerable Advancement application for the task, is to be situated surrounding to French renewable resource giant Neoen’s functional 150 MW Coleambally Solar Farm and would link to NSW network operator TransGrid’s Coleambally Substation.

Risen stated the huge battery, valued at more than $30 million, would support renewable resource generation and increase the dependability of the grid as the country shifts from its historic dependence on massive coal-fired generation.

” The proposition would benefit the electrical energy grid by stabilizing the network through the addition of energy storage,” the business stated. “This kept energy would be made use of throughout durations of low eco-friendly output into the energy grid.”

Risen stated this is particularly crucial throughout NSW’s shift from centralised to decentralised power generation with 4 of the 5 coal-fired power stations in the state anticipated to close within 15 years, beginning with the Liddell Power Station which is to be closed down in less than 3 months.

The proposed Coleambally battery storage center would offer storage capability to the Coleambally Solar Farm– which has the capability to provide near 400 GWh of eco-friendly electrical energy to the grid every year– increasing “the stability and dependability of the renewable resource supply in the location.”

” By co-locating the task surrounding to the existing solar farm and substation, it develops on and combines the location as a center of renewable resource activity,” Risen stated.

The task is to be constructed on a roughly 5-hectare website about 10 kilometres north-east of Coleambally and would include as much as 40 blocks of battery systems, a transformer and about 1km of 132 kV transmission line routing to the Coleambally Substation.

It is expected the building and commissioning stage would take about 8 to 10 months and would produce work for a building labor force of 80. The task has actually an approximated functional life of 35 to 40 years, with the alternative for extensions.

The Coleambally battery becomes part of a growing pipeline of renewable resource generation and storage Risen is pursuing in Australia.

Risen stated it will continue to establish and buy renewable resource tasks in Australia with a target of establishing 3 GW and providing 1 GW eco-friendly tasks by 2027.

This consists of the 200 MW/400 MWh Bungama battery energy storage system task being established near Port Pirie in South Australia.

The task, which got developmental approval in 2021 and is presently going through grid connection approval, is among 8 grid-scale battery tasks to have actually just recently been approved financing by the Australian Renewable Resource Company (ARENA).