Fluence has been issued the required Notice to Proceed on a battery storage project in Australia, which will provide inertia services via the system’s advanced inverter equipment.
An Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) programme to put AU$120 million (US$78.17 million) towards community battery storage received applications for more than ten times that amount.
What has been described as the largest battery storage project to date in the state of New South Wales, Australia, has been brought online by Edify Energy.
The Australian government is funding grid inertia measurement trial at the Victorian Big Battery, aiming to develop real-time, accurate assessments of the status of the network.
Construction has begun on battery storage project to demonstrate advanced inverter technology, in historic mining region of Broken Hill, New South Wales.