place

Victorian Big Battery

2021 establishments in AustraliaBuildings and structures in GeelongElectric power infrastructure in Victoria (state)Energy infrastructure completed in 2021Energy storage projects
Use Australian English from December 2021

The Victorian Big Battery is a grid-connected battery electricity storage facility adjacent to the Moorabool Terminal Station (substation) near Geelong in Victoria, Australia. The battery provides 450 MWh of storage and can discharge at 300 MW. It surpasses the 250 MWh Gateway Energy Storage in California, United States. As of December 2021, the project is the largest lithium-ion battery in the Southern Hemisphere.The Victorian Big Battery is owned and operated by French renewable energy producer Neoen. Funding of $160 million was provided by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the Australian government's green bank. Construction started at the beginning of 2021. It commenced operations on 8 December 2021. It uses Tesla Megapack storage units, an electric accumulator designed specifically for large-scale projects. The battery aims to prevent blackouts during periods of network instability by providing grid support services, capturing and storing excess energy from sources such as wind farms, and feeding it into the grid during peak periods or outages to support Victoria's electricity supply. The battery will store enough energy to power more than one million Victorian homes for half an hour.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Victorian Big Battery (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors).

Victorian Big Battery
Ballan Road, City of Greater Geelong

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Victorian Big BatteryContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N -38.04 ° E 144.29 °
placeShow on map

Address

Ballan Road (Geelong-Ballan Road)

Ballan Road
3213 City of Greater Geelong
Victoria, Australia
mapOpen on Google Maps

Share experience

Nearby Places

Geelong Baptist College

Geelong Baptist College is a private, co-educational, Baptist college located in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 2002, on the site of the former Chanel College, and provides education for students from years Prep to 12. Located at Lovely Banks, near Geelong, the college has a view over Corio Bay and the northern suburbs of Geelong. The current Primary Principal is josef Knol, who took over from Stuart patch at the end of 2007. Neil Wetmore became the college's Secondary Principal at the beginning of 2014. The school currently has around 130 students. The School currently has 2 campuses the Dallas campus and the angus campus A Year 9 program named "The Edge" commenced at the start of term 3 in 2009, offering camps and other experiences for the students.The college participates in inter-school sports competitions including netball, football and soccer. Geelong Baptist College soccer team was solid between 2009 - 2012, winning WCCSA in 2009 with ease scoring 16 goals and only conceding 3 goals in 5 games, beating Macedon Grammar 9–0 in one of the group games, which one of the goals was scored from Geelong's own half from striker mike coxlong. In that season the team had a 0–0 away draw with local powerhouse St Joseph's College, Geelong and also beating Geelong Grammar 1-0 and in friendly match. The all-time top goal scorer is Paul Zimonyi, with 17 goals in 18 matches. In May 2011, Melbourne City FC, known then as Melbourne Heart, visited Geelong Baptist College to run a soccer clinic for the whole school.