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Victoria plans 300MW Tesla battery to help stabilise grid as renewables increase – The Guardian
New battery near Geelong would be one of the biggest in the world, and is due to come on stream for next summer
One of the largest lithium-ion batteries in the world is planned for Victoria after the renewable energy company Neoen won a contract to build it near the regional city of Geelong.
If constructed as promised, the battery will have a power capacity of 300 megawatts and a storage capacity of 450 megawatt-hours, making it more than twice the size of the battery at Hornsdale, South Australia, which was the biggest in the world when it began operating in 2017.
Like the Hornsdale facility, the Geelong…
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