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A new frontier in energy

Hornsdale Power Reserve, owned and operated by Neoen, and supplied by Tesla, is the world’s largest lithium-ion battery energy storage system, with a discharge capacity of 100 MW and energy storage capacity of 129 MWh. Located near Jamestown, South Australia, it shares the same 275 kV network connection point as the 300 MW Hornsdale wind farm. It was built, writes Paul Gleeson of Aurecon, to stabilize the state’s electricity grid, to facilitate the integration of renewable energy, and help prevent load-shedding (i.e. blackout events).

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pv magazine

25 Feb 2019

Graphic: pv magazine/ Harald Schütt

Hornsdale Power Reserve (HPR) serves 70 MW of its discharge capacity for designated system security services contracted with the South Australian (SA) Government. The remaining 30 MW of power capacity and 119 MWh of energy storage are available to Neoen for market participation.In early 2017, Aurecon was appointed by the SA government as specialist technical …

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