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AGL seeks approval for big battery at Loy Yang – The Australian Financial Review
The four-hour battery is one of several large storage systems in the works to help the transition away from coal power.
AGL Energy is moving ahead with plans for a four-hour, 200 megawatt battery at its Loy Yang power station in Victoria, which is one of multiple large storage systems planned in the south-east to help replace ageing coal plants.
The major utility has lodged a planning application for the project, first flagged by AGL last November, which would count towards its target of developing 850 MW of grid-scale batteries by 2023-24. It didnt give a cost for the project or when it expects to reach financial…
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