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"Work is underway on a $65 million rollout of eight community-scale batteries
across the Western Sydney grid, where they will soak up plentiful household
solar and help some of the hottest suburbs in Australia – and in the world – to
power through future summer heatwaves.
The first sod was turned on Thursday in Penrith at the site of the first of the
series of battery energy storage systems (BESS) that are being privately funded
by Auconnex, a subsidiary of New South Wales network company Endeavour Energy.
The Penrith medium-voltage BESS will provide just under 5 megawatts (MW) of
power and 17 megawatt-hours (MWh of storage. All up, the eight BESS projects
will provide about 40 MW of power and 136 MWh of storage, enough to power
40,000 homes for up to three hours.
Ausconnex says Penrith and the surrounding suburbs have been recorded as the
hottest place on Earth, hitting 48.9 degrees Celcius in January 2020, hotter
that day than anywhere else on the planet.
“It’s the geography, the concrete, the way hot air gets trapped against the
mountains, and it means the suburb copes with heat extremes most of the country
never sees,” a media briefing note explained.
Endeavour Energy Group CEO Danny Cooper says the batteries are also targeting
some of the state’s major growth centres, including South Marsden Park, Seven
Hills, Emu Plains, Maldon, North Leppington, Cawdor and Cranebrook.
“The batteries are being delivered in some of the fastest-growing communities
in Australia, where population growth, new housing and increasing
electrification are driving demand,” Cooper said on Thursday.
“Battery energy storage systems will make better use of renewable energy,
provide greater flexibility across the energy system and support the region’s
growth for decades to come.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
