Neoen eyes record-breaking storage project in Australia

Neoen has submitted a proposal to develop a 600 MW, $185 million battery project at Geelong in Australia’s state of Victoria. The energy storage system would be by far the world’s largest, dwarfing other contenders. Those would be a 200 MW/800 MWh project which will come online in Dalian, China, this year, and Neoen’s own 150 MW/183.5 MWh Hornsdale Power Reserve, constructed using Tesla Powerwalls, near Jamestown not far from the South Australian coast in late 2017. Geelong, a port city of 270,000, lies 60 kilometers south-west from Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city. Alongside Neoen, Mondo Power will also be involved in the project, which would be located at the Moorabool power terminal; Mondo Power is a subsidiary of AusNet,…